Henry Saint Clair Fredericks (Taj Mahal) Quotes
Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor’s love wrought in living stones.
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My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.
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Every one of my regrets has produced a song I'm proud of.
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I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.
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I am proud of what I've done.
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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.
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There's not a day in my life I'm not proud of being gay, but I just wasn't ready for that attention to be placed on it. I remember being on Oprah. Well, not on Oprah. Near Oprah. She started saying, 'Now, Nathan, you got all those girlie moves going down in 'The Birdcage,' where's all that coming from? You're so good at all that girlie stuff!'
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I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.
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I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.
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The general public, formerly profoundly indifferent to everything to do with building, has been shaken out of its torpor; personal interest in architecture as something that concerns every one of us in our daily lives has been very widely aroused; and the broad line of its future development are already clearly discernible.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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I try to take the time to appreciate and I certainly do appreciate and I do feel proud but that is probably one of the things I need to work on, building a bit of time for myself.
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I'm proud that Della was sort of a prototype for TV secretaries. There really was no such established character on TV when 'Perry Mason' came along.
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
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My connections to Broward are long, and they are deep, and I'm proud of them.
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Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too.
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We should be proud that our Prophet came into the world with the message of Islam to change it for the better, and not for the worse, or to keep things as they are.
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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
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I am very proud to follow the rules of our company.
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In the '60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris, replacing them with modern architecture. I realized this as a dangerous utopia. This modern vision did not understand the richness of the city. Thankfully, such destruction did not happen.
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To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.
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Some people say that compassion is the purest form of love because it neither expects nor demands anything in return.
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The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.
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You realize you're alive while you're alive, and you better notice it then, because later, it's hard to see.
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Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor’s love wrought in living stones.
