Yoshio Taniguchi Quotes
Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
Quotes to Explore
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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You never think about what life's going to be like five years down the road or 10 - you just go though the day and try to make good decisions. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. You just hope this day will be a good day.
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I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
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Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
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My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
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Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectual, since the function of stories is to make us both feel and think.
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You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
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Good twists are enormously hard to come by, and I think the best ones are earned ones. The idea that a story can take a left turn on you, it's easy to do, but it has to be done very, very carefully, or else you risk losing the audience's trust.
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Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
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My husband is a brilliant cook - enthusiastic and good - but he has not mastered the clearing up as you go along.
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After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them.
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Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.
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I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.
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In order for sensation to accede to the objectivity of things, it must itself be changed into a thing. The agent of change is language: the sensations are turned into verbal objects.
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The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded.
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So, okay, I'm not a genius. Vincent Van Gogh and Albert Einstein were geniuses.
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I'm amazed that years after I stopped playing tennis, people still recognize me in restaurants and ask for my autograph.
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You need to have camaraderie in the clubhouse. Wherever you're working, be it a baseball team or at a business, you want to walk in there and say, 'Geez, it's great to be at work. Let's go get 'em,' as opposed to walking in there knowing there's going to be a commotion.
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I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.
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Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
