Tadao Ando Quotes
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
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Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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Women just love to shop.
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Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
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Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.
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How majestic is naturalness. I have never met a man whom I really considered a great man who was not always natural and simple. Affectation is inevitably the mark of one not sure of himself.
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Big stories need human stakes.
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I grew up doing a lot of traveling. My mom left home when she was 15 and traveled to 48 different countries and speaks six different languages. So I grew up with my eyes open. She raised me so that if my heart says something is wrong, I have to go help. What's right is right and what's wrong is wrong.
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I swear people don't want sex so much as they want somebody who'll listen to 'em … the first thing you learn after fellatio is how to listen.
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I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.
