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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People don't know exactly what I do; they just know I'm 'cool.'
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In the summer of 2012 - and we do as we do when we get together to brainstorm an idea - we were both probably eating grilled cheese and watching 'Oprah's Favorite Things,' so it will never end, and we both brought a few things to the table of what we wanted our next project to be. And Jessica said, 'What if we raised a baby together?'
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I'm a professional world champion. Of course if you're a world champion, you're working harder than everybody else. You're making the commitment, and you're making the sacrifices. If it were easy, everybody would be able to do it. Everybody would be able to be world champion, but everybody can't be. Everybody doesn't have it in them.
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The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.
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Enthusiasm for conservation can be fashioned into a nasty weapon for those who dislike business on general principles.
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I try to create homes, not houses.
