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.
Quotes to Explore
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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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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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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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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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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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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If you really want to be an artist, you search yourself, and you find a lot of it comes from earlier times. I have pretty much built the work around my experiences. When I've moved from one place to another, the work has changed.
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I never liked feeling like the world needed to have labels on everything, whether it's people or categories of music. I think everyone should be what they want to be, and you shouldn't have to look a certain way in order to fit this mold or that mold.
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Legislators are interested in their pet projects, getting re-elected, and popularity contests.
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I've always been loud and obnoxious and sneaking my way into things, and so I feel like I've snuck my way onto the Lollapalooza lineup, and I'm going to sneak my way into whatever else I get to do.
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I'm anti-globalisation. There is nothing more enriching than to go out into the world and meet people different to you. We must fight the spread of a singular way of thinking and preserve cultural differences.
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Look at what is happening in China and in Russia. They have units that are specifically targeted cyber warfare. They are carrying it out. Our critical infrastructure is attacked thousands of times a day.
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The most important thing a magazine can do online is maintain its brand and be very strong in terms of delivering on that brand.
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The visuals are equally as important as the music. It's all a complete experience.
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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.
