David Adjaye Quotes
If you just live in New York and you only know New York, you know a certain kind of condition of formality and informality. By being able to go to another context and to be able to use that as a counter foil to the context you know, you are about to see a wider range.
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Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
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My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.
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Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.
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I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.
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My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
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My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.
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We take ourselves so seriously moment by moment, but India shows you a sense of eternity. You're one little ant on a hill. You're part of life, but you're not the whole thing.
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In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours.
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It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was in love with over the years, from Louisa May Alcott to Bernard Malamud to John Cheever to Anne Frank to Joy Williams.
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When you a ghetto star, when you a hood star, you gonna take care of your grandmother, your mother. When you on that next level, you gotta take care of the city, the streets.
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Acting found me. I thought maybe I should try to find it again. We'll see.
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I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.
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I just try to attack the rim as hard as I can. Try to get the crowd pumped up a little bit.
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Laurel Canyon is kind of grotesque. It's this nature-themed place, and everybody is kind of angry.
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But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
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I don't think I'm exactly gregarious, you know. I'm not usually known as the loud person in the room.
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I like pastels and lighter shades on darker skins. I feel like it lifts everything and accentuates being chocolate.
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Most church members live so far below the standard, you would have to backslide to be in fellowship with them.
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You can see how dysfunctional this Congress is.
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It is not that we don't know the right answers, it is just that we don't ask the right questions.
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As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I do? Work for a social and political system, make a girl miserable? Hunt for weaknesses in philosophical systems, fight for moral and esthetic ideals? It’s all too little. I renounce my humanity even though I may find myself alone. But am I not already alone in this world from which I no longer expect anything?
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If you just live in New York and you only know New York, you know a certain kind of condition of formality and informality. By being able to go to another context and to be able to use that as a counter foil to the context you know, you are about to see a wider range.
