David Adjaye Quotes
Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings.
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I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.
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I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.
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With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It's not good enough to think, 'This is the best we can expect from this president'.
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First and foremost, I feel very lucky to have the family I have, so I would like my family to stay happy and healthy.
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One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members.
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I would love to spend a year living in New York; I've wanted to do that since I was 18. I'll be really disappointed if I'm 50 and haven't done something like that.
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At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.
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It is a struggle. But I don't mind. I will just keep fighting on.
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I wasn't necessarily frustrated in Fall Out Boy, but there were things that didn't get satisfied, desires left wanting. We didn't all meet on the same kind of music. When bands break up, there are all these buzz words that get tossed around to maintain a front for the audience, but in this case there literally were creative differences.
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I feel it's my responsibility to turn people on to great music.
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Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, … I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.
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It is clear that the causal nexus is not a nexus at all.
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Goals do not get stored in your voice message or email bin. They are not going to reach out from the world wide web and remind you they exist. As a result, our goals do not get the respect they deserve.
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I don't have the freaking energy to write a memo. I'm out there saving lives.
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I'm always reading several books at the same time, depending on how deeply engrossed in it I am, if it's fiction and if it captures me.
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Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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It is important for us to be able to meet and greet the people that we serve. And if we start having police presence everywhere we go, it's going to create a chilling effect on discourse, and it creates an incredible assault on the democratic process.
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I primarily have had my career in comedy, and that is something that I have never been too concerned about because I know there is really no room for vanity in comedy. Comedy comes from pain and it is a lot easier to empathize with somebody who is out of shape.
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Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings.
