Tadao Ando Quotes

If there is only one culture all over the world, that's not a good thing.

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• Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Live
  • Kids
  • Hope

• Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Culture
  • Know
  • Irony

• One of my strengths is connecting with the players.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Strengths
  • Connecting

• I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Hero
  • Force
  • Used

• It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Time
  • Different
  • Fun

• That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Like
  • Songs
  • Make

• I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • Want
  • Know
  • Me

• I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Religious

• Breaking up is hard to do... so it's essential to keep getting wiser - and wiser - about what healthy love is all about.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Healthy

• Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • American
  • You
  • Inside

• I don't know, a lot of people go crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I don't like the soap opera aspect of it and only following one character. I like the context to all of it, all the pieces, like 'The Wire.' It's more about the state of things; it's not about the narrative of a person.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • Character
  • Bad

• I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • You
  • Nothing
  • Captain

• I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Time
  • Me
  • Play

• When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Movie
  • Hot Fuzz
  • Barbara Steele

• I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Why

• My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • High

• So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Women
  • Love
  • Fall

• Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • May
  • Christmas
  • Birds

• I am not afraid if the criticism concerns what I do wrong, because then I know. Because if you say the King cannot be criticized, it means that the King is not human.

  

  Bhumibol Adulyadej
  • King
  • Criticism

• The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • You
  • English
  • Say

• As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and all those gangsters and Indians were just real people in costume.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • People
  • Real
  • Child

• I love everything about the holidays: the decorations, the parties, and spending time with friends and family. What I love most is that feeling of giving back. Every bit counts.

  

  Brad Goreski
  • Time
  • Family
  • Friends

• Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

  

  William Lyon Phelps
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• If there is only one culture all over the world, that's not a good thing.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • World
  • Good
  • Culture