Tadao Ando Quotes
When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
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There are some movies you do for the character; there are some movies you do for the people.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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I don't believe in writer's block.
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I never mind talking about my dad. I'm proud of who he is, and being his son is one of the things I'm most proud of. To be constantly compared to someone so brilliant, who happens to be your dad, is cool.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
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When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
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This is like a game we have to win. The pressure has risen, which I think is not a bad thing.
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Seeking the invisible through the imagery of the visible, the Americans never can get quite all the way to the end of the American dream.
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I totally agree with equal rights and women's causes, and most of my songs are woman-power, but I don't want to be labelled at 20 years old.
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Asylum is for people fleeing persecution, not those searching for a better job. Yet our broken system - with its debilitating court rulings, a crushing backlog, and gaping loopholes - allows illegal migrants to get into our country anyway and for whatever reason they want. This gaming of the system is unacceptable.
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I have pledged my word to help people on to truth while living and - will keep my word. Let them abuse and revile me. Let some call me a medium, and a Spiritualist, and others an imposter. The day will come when posterity will learn to know me better.
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When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space.
