David Adjaye Quotes

The thing about architecture is that it's an art [you] simply learn more by doing more. It's one of those things that is really not an art about thinking, but doing. So in a way, what it has done is greatly intensify the way that I build.

David Adjaye

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• The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

  

  Jack London
  • Time
  • Live
  • Trying

• Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • History
  • Mistake
  • United

• An actor has to embody a role.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Actor
  • Role
  • Embody

• My favorite animal is steak.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Food
  • Animal
  • Steak

• I entered the acting world at a time when there was a higher demand for Middle Eastern actors in the post-9/11 world, and yeah, the roles weren't great.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• Our original name was Wild Country, but when we first went to The Bowery, they had the name of all 50 states around the edge of the club, so we went to the sign that said 'Alabama' and stuck our band name underneath it.

  

  Randy Owen
  • Country
  • Band
  • Name

• Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • World
  • Purpose
  • Suffering

• Going to Europe as a budding cook opened my eyes to food in a different way. When I got to Italy, the first thing I did was put my little basil plants in the ground and watch them turn into big, healthy bushes.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Different
  • Food
  • Eyes

• I have a record of wanting to make sure that campaigns are open and financing is fair, but it can't just be one sided.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Open
  • Fair
  • Wanting

• I definitely relate so much to a lot of women in comedy, but I don't love segregating the genders. I'm just as influenced by male comedians as I am female comedians.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Women
  • Comedy
  • Influenced

• It is easy but inaccurate to label any legislation which makes it easier for working families to combine family and work responsibilities 'job killers.'

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Work
  • Family
  • Job

• The moment we realize that the only things we can intelligibly value are actual and potential changes in the experience of conscious beings, we can think about a landscape of such changes - where the peaks correspond to the greatest possible well-being and the valleys correspond to the lowest depths of suffering.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Experience
  • Value
  • Suffering

• Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Time
  • Education
  • Learning

• People have a right to surf the Web without Big Brother watching their every move and announcing it to the world. The Internet marketplace has matured - and it's time for consumers' protections to keep pace.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• The most you play a character in the theater is, like, a couple months, and then you put it away.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Character
  • You
  • Play

• Descriptive research provides an accurate description or picture of the status or characteristics of a situation or phenomenon.

  

  Clayton M. Christensen
  • Picture

• That vague kind of penitence which holidays awaken next morning.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Morning

• Kids today are so intelligent and computer savvy, so pairing an interactive computer world with something cuddly seems like a natural fit.

  

  Ty Warner
  • World
  • Kids
  • Today

• I guess I'm a born ham.

  

  Marta Kristen

• I began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my soul's plusses.

  

  Lionel Blue
  • Soul

• Often the art in New York is related to the buildings, to grandiose things.

  

  Christo
  • Art

• Stand-up comedy - I love this job, and I gotta tell you, folks - knock wood - it's been working. 'Cause I was one of those kind of people, even when I had a regular job, I couldn't even call in sick right. You know, I was like, 'Hello? Yeah, I can't come in today. I have scurvy.

  

  Carol Leifer
  • People
  • Up
  • Job

• And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Important
  • Political
  • Balance

• The thing about architecture is that it's an art [you] simply learn more by doing more. It's one of those things that is really not an art about thinking, but doing. So in a way, what it has done is greatly intensify the way that I build.

  

  David Adjaye
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Art