Denise Scott Brown Quotes
Architecture can't force people to connect, it can only plan the crossing points, remove barriers, and make the meeting places useful and attractive.
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Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
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If you're CEO of a company, you have to be a public person. You're speaking to the press, you're speaking to investors, you're speaking to employees, you're the public face of the company and so kind of naturally you become more extroverted, more outwards facing.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'
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My dad was always busy. You would pop round for a cup of tea, and within minutes you would see him walking past with a step-ladder. He was always fixing things.
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When you don't get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.
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One of the reasons I come to California is that the Republican party seems to have given up on California, and my message to those in California is that we're going to compete nationally as a party, and that includes California.
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Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
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I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.
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Virtue is reason which has become energy.
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The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.
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Usually, in musical theater, if you sing operatically or if you sing in a legit style, you're the heart of the show. You maybe get to be moving and do dramatic stuff, but it's very rare to be that funny.
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Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.
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I would love to be a voice in this maelstrom of chaos and obsessive celebrity infatuation that says, 'Let's talk about something that matters'.
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One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy.
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Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.
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Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
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I have a traditional view of the afterlife... heaven, hell and judgments. But the accounts of those places are scant, and I believe it's on purpose. We aren't supposed to try to figure out the architecture of the afterlife, since the big game is here in this life.
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Some of us fight against it, doing everything we can to make it not true. Some of us lose ourselves to grief. Some of us lose ourselves to anger.
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Architecture can't force people to connect, it can only plan the crossing points, remove barriers, and make the meeting places useful and attractive.
