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.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Country
  • Parents
  • Reason

• Courage is found in unlikely places.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Courage
  • Found
  • Places

• I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.

  

  Ted Rall
  • American
  • Society
  • First

• I bungee-jump, skydive, surf and snowboard.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Jump
  • Surf

• 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.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Hate

• It's not enough for just us to invest in Utah; more and more, we are encouraging businesses around the world to follow suit. We want them to invest in and become part of Utah's future and to allow Utah to invest and become part of theirs.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • World
  • Future
  • Want

• I've always taken direction pretty well.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Pretty
  • Taken
  • Always

• 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.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Different
  • Long
  • Home

• Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • World
  • Rise
  • Mental Illness

• Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • Wisdom

• That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• 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.'

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Country
  • Support
  • Equality

• Giving children a fair chance to achieve their dreams and reach their potential is everyone's responsibility.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Children
  • Giving
  • Responsibility

• It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.

  

  Dana Fox
  • Done
  • Comedy
  • Romantic

• 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.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Stop

• I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Hope
  • Die
  • Struggle

• 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.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Effort

• This is a medical service. It always was.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Service

• While the web is very much the first draft of history, a rough-cut, it still has to be good journalism, well-sourced, reliable. Clearly, the printed form is going to have more effort put into it, going to be more reflective and relevant.

  

  Lionel Barber
  • Good
  • History
  • Effort

• Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Sheep

• There is no harsher means of punishment, than to answer malice with kindness.

  

  Nikos Kazantzakis
  • Kindness
  • Answer
  • Punishment

• Typically my ideas come to me in the most inane ways possible. I had the initial idea for 'Quantum Conundrum' while I was walking down the street to get breakfast. People are like, 'Whoa, what's your inspiration, is it something amazing?' No, I was just really hungry.

  

  Kim Swift
  • Amazing
  • Ideas
  • Inspiration

• I am a romantic, but I do put up a barrier around myself, so it is hard for people to get in and to know the real me. I fall in love much too quickly and that results in me getting badly hurt. The problem with love is that you lose control and that is a very vulnerable state to be in. I would love to really have a beautiful relationship with somebody, but it never seems to work out. What I would like most of all is to be in a state of blissful love.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • People
  • Love
  • Beautiful

• One of the things I think about as I've evolved as an architect is, 'Where do the poetic impulses come from?'

  

  Antoine Predock