Antoine Predock Quotes
One of the things I think about as I've evolved as an architect is, 'Where do the poetic impulses come from?'
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I was born in Canada for a reason. It was because my parents wanted me to have the freedoms that this country offers.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
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I bungee-jump, skydive, surf and snowboard.
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I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.
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I've always taken direction pretty well.
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I was once in a long relationship with a man who ran a vintage clothes store but had been a chef, so I'd come home each night to a different three-course meal. I was quite fat, but so happy.
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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
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That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character.
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When Landon Carter, a Virginia plantation owner, read the Declaration of Independence two days after it was issued, he wondered whether its ringing affirmation of equality meant that slaves must be freed. If so, he confided to his diary, 'You must send them out of the country, or they must steal for their support.'
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Giving children a fair chance to achieve their dreams and reach their potential is everyone's responsibility.
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It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.
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If we're going to reach a broader audience, we have to stop thinking about that audience strictly in terms of teenage boys or even teenage girls. We need to think about things that are relevant to normal humans and not just the geeks we used to be.
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I don't use sex to sell records, obviously, but I'd be lying if I said that I don't feel like I have to make an effort to look good when I go out onstage, to wear something pretty.
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This is a medical service. It always was.
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There's something to be said for returning the whole syntax tree.
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Something about the possession of a book - an object that can contain infinite fables, words of wisdom, chronicles of times gone by, humorous anecdotes and divine revelation - endows the reader with the power of creating a story, and the listener with a sense of being present at the moment of creation.
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Listening to people keeps them entertained.
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Nobody disputes that cheap natural gas would be a good thing for the economy. The question is, is this a sustainable new development that can be counted on for decades to come, or simply a 'bubble' brought on by a land grab and drilling frenzy?
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The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
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I think the model that I look at is someone like Jakob Dylan, whose dad is obviously every bit if not more famous than mine. He's a guy who sought to build a career on his own, doing something that's a little bit different than what his father does.
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We have a rich tradition here in the United States of great decathletes, which is amazing 'cause we have absolutely no program to develop these guys. Zero. There's nothing. They do it on their own, just like I did back in '76.
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I think that Gollum is really the character who is a very human character, and he's very flawed, like most humans are, and has good and bad sides.
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One of the things I think about as I've evolved as an architect is, 'Where do the poetic impulses come from?'
