Gary Hustwit Quotes

In some bigger cities, I don't think people really realize these structures were built for the Olympics.

Gary Hustwit

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• The earth laughs in flowers.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Flowers

• In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • English
  • First
  • Birthday

• For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • American
  • Future
  • Man

• I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Like

• To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • You
  • Honest
  • Lazy

• It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation of Negro slaves as indispensable to the development and triumph of the manufacturers and bankers of the industrial North, East and West over the slave-holder of the South.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Development
  • Class
  • West

• I am gluten free, dairy free and sugar free, although I do slip up on the sugar sometimes because I have a big sweet tooth!

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Free
  • Sweet
  • Dairy

• I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Simple
  • Architecture
  • Calm

• Men create the gods in their own image.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Men
  • Create
  • Own

• I've always found the rain very calming.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Always
  • Rain
  • Very

• My efforts are focused on ensuring that CERN maintains a leading role in the fields of science, technology and education, and that it continues to be a place that unites scientists from around the world.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • World
  • Science
  • Education

• It's a part of football, you get concussed, you gotta keep on playing. You can't get afraid to go across the middle any more than you were at the beginning.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • You
  • Football
  • Beginning

• America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Power
  • America
  • Society

• I was definitely surrounded by music and fashion at a very, very young age.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Music
  • Age
  • Fashion

• I'm happy to be told that I am beautiful, but I don't gain anything from that.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • Happy
  • Beautiful

• 'Enlarge my life with multitude of days!'In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays:Hides from himself his state, and shuns to knowThat life protracted is protracted woe.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Health

• 'Over the MountainsOf the Moon,Down the Valley of the Shadow,Ride, boldly ride,'The shade replied, - 'If you seek for Eldorado!'

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Moon
  • Shadow

• I'm interested in non-fiction, but a form of it which is very badly behaved, which doesn't define itself as straight-ahead journalism or memoir. It blurs boundaries, plays fast and loose with the truth - not to be silly, whimsical or lazy, but to get greater purchase on what it feels like to be alive.

  

  David Shields
  • Truth
  • Silly
  • Lazy

• Robert Townson at Varese is a huge fan of film music and has really done a lot to educate audiences about film music and scores.

  

  Marco Beltrami
  • Music
  • Done

• Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • House
  • Man
  • Born

• I'm dreaming of sleeping next to you and feeling like a lost little boy in a brand new town I'm counting my sheep and each one that passes is another dream to ashes And they all fall down. - Sleeping to Dream

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Dream
  • Feeling
  • Lost

• When it comes to staying myself - my career isn't my life, it doesn't come home with me. So it's a piece of piss staying grounded and not being changed by it. The same things I've always liked still satisfy me. My team's the same and my group of friends are the same. Of course I'm bowled over by people's response to 21, and when I meet artists I love, it blows my mind. But it baffles me as well. I go home and my best friend laughs at me, rather than going to a celebrity-studded party to rub shoulders with people who know me but who I don't know. I'm Z-list when it comes to that sh**.

  

  Adele
  • People
  • Life
  • Mind

• In some bigger cities, I don't think people really realize these structures were built for the Olympics.

  

  Gary Hustwit
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Realizing