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

• Like anything, I think there are some wonderful found footage movies, and there are some less good. Certainly when it's done well, I really love it. I really love it as a genre.

  

  Drew Goddard
  • Good
  • Done

• I'm out doing my deal, I'm turning people on. What's wrong with taking people away from their everyday mundane situation and having a good, fun night for an hour and a half at a rock'n'roll scene?

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • People
  • Fun
  • Night

• After all, it was only a story,' I said, determined to prove her wrong. 'All manner of terrible things may happen in a story. They may be startling at the time, but it passes. One gets caught up in the narrative, but the dangers aren't real, are they? Things happen in any way the storyteller chooses. It is all just made up.

  

  Chris Priestley
  • Story
  • Narrative
  • Dangers

• We all hate those stories that end with 'And that's the story.'

  

  Matt Besser
  • Hate

• The thing I love about acting is that you can bring something very personal into the open and at the same time remain hidden because you're always playing a character in a story that someone else has imagined. You're always protected.

  

  Ben Whishaw
  • Time
  • Character

• 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