Tadao Ando Quotes
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The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.
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I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.
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I treasure my meetings with individuals affected by autism - parents, children, teachers and friends. Their strength is inspiring. They deserve all possible opportunities for education, employment and integration.
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For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
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When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.
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I don't like to look typical.
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What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.
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All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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Parochial schools in the United States are also responsible for educating students from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds, including many who are non-Catholic.
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Now it is the least developed world who are not responsible for this climate change phenomenon that bore the brunt of climate change consequences so it is morally and politically correct that the developed world who made this climate change be responsible by providing financial support and technological support to these people.
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It's important to have a big-enough house in order to have space.
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How did they meet? By chance, like everybody … Where did they come from? From the nearest place. Where were they going? Do we know where we are going?
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Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
