Tadao Ando Quotes
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.
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There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.
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You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
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It's an individual sport; you want to do well for yourself.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
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We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
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Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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I am attracted to these outsider characters who just don't belong anywhere, and who are operating in worlds they sort of don't fit, coupled with huge ambitions.
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My interest was directed, from my medical student days, to Immunology, and particularly to the mechanism of hypersensitivity. I had suffered from bronchial asthma as a child and had developed a deep curiosity in allergic phenomena.
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I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
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Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
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Everything you say or allow into your eyes or ears becomes data that is stored in your heart. That data is later replayed during your prayer. If you want to know what is filling your heart, look at what you think about in your prayer. If you want to guard your heart, guard your eyes, ears, and tongue.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
