David Adjaye Quotes

Buildings for me represent opportunities of agency, transformation, and storytelling. They are not just artifacts. There is this big tradition of buildings-as-artifacts - constructed artifacts - but for me they are these incredible sites of negotiation.

David Adjaye

• Opportunity
• Transformation
• Tradition
• Incredibles
• Storytelling

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• We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Giving
  • Opportunity

• In the 1970s and 1980s, I got to do some great work. The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.

  

  Sally Field
  • Work
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Family
  • Opportunity
  • Lost

• Perhaps gaining power doesn't cause people to act like takers. It simply creates the opportunity for people who think like takers to express themselves.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Power
  • Opportunity

• I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Tradition
  • Feet
  • Stand

• I have to say, working with Dan Stevens in 'The Guest' and seeing his transformation was incredible. Also Kate Winslet. Off set, she's loud and sweary, but when she walks on set, she has this calmness and is so centred.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Transformation
  • Calmness
  • Kate Winslet

• I think the Miss Universe title not only gives me the opportunity to become a role model for Latina girls around the world, but to show that beauty isn't just about the outside.

  

  Gabriela Isler
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Universe

• Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

  

  Kanye West
  • Music
  • Art
  • Opportunity

• It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • People
  • Words
  • Change

• Every writer dreams of having the ability to hold forth for 8,000 words and pull all these different forms together: history, reportage, journalism. That was all I really wanted, and 'The Atlantic' was my first high-profile opportunity.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Different
  • Together
  • History

• I don't think I ever set my goals that high. As a kid growing up I just wanted an opportunity to race and to be able to make a living doing it. It just came together.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Up
  • Together
  • High

• Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Unique

• Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Meaning
  • Storytelling

• I get to delve into some of the most creative experience I've had as an actor on 'Mr. Robot.' I think there's a wide opportunity for actors to do that now more so than ever on television.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Experience
  • Opportunity

• Unfortunately, many programs are so big that there is no one individual who really knows all the pieces, and so the amount of code sharing you get isn't as great. Also, the opportunity to go back and really rewrite something isn't quite as great, because there's always a new set of features that you're adding on to the same program.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• I think that the opportunity to be a kid another year and not have to not worry about the responsibilities of paying bills, and worry about getting an agent and worry about getting an accountant was important.

  

  Jason Williams
  • Important
  • Opportunity
  • Worry

• The difference between a Democrat and Republican is that Democrats fight to make sure everybody has an opportunity to succeed, and the Republicans are strangled by their right-wing extremists.

  

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz
  • Opportunity

• When the opportunity to choreograph came up, it was nothing more in my head but an opportunity. Then it suddenly became a career very quickly.

  

  Adam Shankman
  • Up
  • Career
  • Opportunity

• Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.

  

  David Sarnoff
  • Experience
  • Success
  • Opportunity

• About 10 minutes [into the dinner] my sister texted me and said, "Maria, I just wanted to let you know that you're on TV live. You're front and center." I thought, 'Oh God, I'm right behind Donald Trump and in the camera shot. After that I stopped moving. I just sat there. It was funny. I was delighted that people noticed my white gloves. It was a white tie dinner, for the dais you had to be in white tie. If I can't channel my best Sophia Loren glamour for a white tie affair, when can I? I thought it was an excellent opportunity to wear the white gloves.

  

  Maria Bartiromo
  • People
  • God
  • Live

• Touring and promoting and recording take a lot of time, it's just getting the right balance that's important.

  

  Jamelia
  • Time
  • Important
  • Balance

• The one thing you can do for sure is push the luck on your side

  

  Roger Federer
  • Luck
  • Sides

• Buildings for me represent opportunities of agency, transformation, and storytelling. They are not just artifacts. There is this big tradition of buildings-as-artifacts - constructed artifacts - but for me they are these incredible sites of negotiation.

  

  David Adjaye
  • Opportunity
  • Transformation
  • Tradition