David Adjaye Quotes
I'm totally into architecture for all strata of society. High design should not just be for rich people.
Quotes to Explore
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I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.
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I believe that everything has a shelf life.
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Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
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For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
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I feel blessed to be having a really easy pregnancy.
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L.A.'s always been good to me.
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I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we're not quite seeing.
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CERN is a concrete example of worldwide, international co-operation - and a concrete example of peace. The place which makes, in my opinion, better scientists, but also better people.
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People always say to me, 'It must have been wonderful coming from old Hollywood, with all those movie stars,' but I never knew anyone. I didn't even know who Charlie Chaplin was. My parents really kept me away from it all.
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A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.
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There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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I have a noble body. It adapts to all I ask of it.
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When you do comedy, you get impervious to good and bad reviews.
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No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women.
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We now to peace and darknessAnd earth and thee restoreThy creature that thou madestAnd wilt cast forth no more.
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I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.
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'Nyxnissa?'She looked back at the queen. 'There are no happy endings, Nyxnissa.''I know,' Nyx said. 'Life keeps going.'
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Sometimes I freeze...until the light comesSometimes I fly...into the nightSometimes I fight...against the darknessSometimes I'm wrong...sometimes I'm right - Freeze (Part IV of 'Fear') (2002)
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Every day proves to me more and more that this American world was not made for me.
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I run in London, in San Francisco - any city that's got a waterfront or park.
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Way back in the day, I used to cook for Thomas Keller at Rakel in New York City. Keller is a down to earth, kind, supportive person. I wish people could see that.
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I would classify myself as an individual. That's what I try to stay true with - being myself, 100 percent.
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I love catching a snapshot of something that is just about to happen. Or maybe something that just happened, you know. But I like especially that just-before kind of feeling.
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I'm totally into architecture for all strata of society. High design should not just be for rich people.
