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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I've never had someone pick outfits for me. Almost everything I get is from Goodwill.
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Raise the taxes, and we find less money in our pockets. Lower the taxes, and we've got more money in those pockets, and we spend it on all kinds of things.
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The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
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There was of course that other thing, that power that had been given him of taking hold of an evil situation, wrestling with it, shaking it as a terrier shakes a rat until the evil fell out of it and fastened on himself. Then he carried the evil on his own shoulders to the place of prayer, carried it up a long hill in darkness, but willingly. Each time he felt himself alone, yet each time when the weight became too much for him it was shared, then lifted, as though he had never been alone. Even it there had been no hope of help he would still have been just as willing.
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I try to create homes, not houses.
