Louis Kahn Quotes
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I couldn't have children, so that's the bad side. But compared to everything else I have, it's not all that terribly bad. I count my winners rather than my losers.
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I want to be back on Broadway one day. That's a dream of mine. There's nothing like live theater, and I think it's so important for me to be able to be on stage with an audience that responds.
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If I can stay constantly busy, I'll be happy.
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I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day or two.
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I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my friends are musicians; I hear music all the time. But I don't have my own collection of music.
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Hosting is a thankless job.
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The championship always goes to the team that wins the most rounds and is the most prepared. I think everybody on our team works hard towards keeping that goal. Time will tell if we're prepared or not.
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Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.
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The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.
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You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.
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I work out four to five days a week, alternating three workouts.
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The hardest part about this business is accepting the back end with the same love that you accepted the front end.
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College kids want to be coached. They want to be taught. They might resist it a little bit early on, but the more you give, the more you get back.
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If Europe does not return to the path of common sense, it will find itself laid low in a battle for its fate.
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She did not send for him until she was afraid; she was not afraid until he undid her work; he did not undo her work until he was past loving her.
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I push this one button and the shower goes on and I think, where the fuck am I?
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Although I'm deaf in only my left ear, when there is noise all around, I'm unable to distinguish sounds and can't hear anything.
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When I'm actually getting off the bus, I still have my gospel playing. That's the way-to-the-game kind of music.
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You've never lived till you've flown!
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The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated.
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This death’s livery which walled its bearers from ordinary life was sign that they have sold their wills and bodies to the State: and contracted themselves into a service not the less abject for that its beginning was voluntary.
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When the time came for me to go to college, there was only one scholarship that my high school offered at the time and I didn't win that one, but that didn't stop me. I went on to college anyway. I worked my way through it and paid my student loans for 11 years.
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it is a shoe designer's job to be a year ahead of our collective unconscious.
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I try to create homes, not houses.
