Tadao Ando Quotes
It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.
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The most amazing set where I've shot 'Game of Thrones' is definitely Croatia, in Dubrovnik. It's such a stunning country with lots of good watersports there as well. Just a beautiful, beautiful place.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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As soldiers in Israel's army, one of the most grueling training regimens we had to endure was a long march while carrying a comrade on a stretcher.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
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I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. And she is an awesome mom. When you are Latina, it is all about family, and to see that she prioritizes family and her career at the same time is really nice.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
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I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.
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It's so easy to look foolish online.
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Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
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Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.
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My jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole - I was an advance man.
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You never know what I'm gonna do.
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I remember the excruciating school task of writing a three-page term paper. But, oh, that feeling when I was done! I think I drive myself for that feeling of accomplishment.
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There are amazing schools and amazing educators that are doing a wonderful job. And then there are a lot of educators that are not prepared to deal with inclusive education. They haven't been trained. It's really quite lovely and easy when you understand how to do it.
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There was a time when you would dream about, say, movie stars. Now, you virtually follow them into their bathroom when they're going to the loo.
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It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.
