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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If you so choose, every mistake can lead to greater understanding and effectiveness. If you so choose, every frustration can help you to be more patient and more persistent.
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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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It is impossible to repeat in one period what was done in another.The pointof view isnotthesame, anymorethan are the tools, the ideals, the needs, or the painters' techniques.
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Change is inevitable, though," he replied. "As is disappointment. Best to get used to it now.
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If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.
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Even the most mundane objects are things of wonder, if we stop to look at them, and the fact that we are alive is the biggest wonder of all.
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I try to create homes, not houses.
