Architect Quotes
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I used to be an architect, so I have a series I am working on with USA Network that I created and am co-writing.
Catherine Hardwicke
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Manhattan, one of the most moneyed spots on the planet, also has one of the greatest concentrations of people in its skyscrapers. Its also, of course, the place where every architect wants to build his tower.
Norman Foster
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The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
Auguste Renoir
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Wright's building made it socially and culturally acceptable for an architect to design a highly expressive, intensely personal museum. In this sense almost every museum of our time is a child of the Guggenheim.
Paul Goldberger
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I make myself a relentless architect of the possibilities of human beings.
Benjamin Zander
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As an architect you are a builder. You are of course more than a builder. You need to be a militant, you have to be a poet, you have to be a visionary, you have to be an artist. But certainly you have to be a builder. Everything starts from there.
Renzo Piano
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Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last. Imagine that you are doing this but that it is essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature...in order to found that edifice on its unavenged tears. Would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me. Tell the truth.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I think that whatever you do, if you're a singer, a rapper, an architect, dentist, treat that like when you're doing it, your whole career depends on that moment.
Eric Benet
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The best architects feel it to be their duty to make the path to the hole as free as possible from annoying difficulties for the less skillful golfers, while at the same time presenting to the scratch players a route calling for the best shots at their command.
Robert Hunter Grateful Dead
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You look at energy use in the U.S. and one-third of it is automotive or our transportation system, one-third of it is manufacturing and one-third of it is buildings. That means architects are responsible for one-third of energy by their designs. So not only is it dire, it's also something that we can do.
Carol Ross Barney
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He has been a key element in numerous successful programs and he has been the architect of some of college football's best defenses during the past 25 years.
Bret Bielema
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We have an architect in the audience who designed one of clubhouses at one of the golf courses. It's a beautiful facility. It immediately was put to use. And Donald Trump wouldn't pay what the man needed to be paid.
Hillary Clinton
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After high school I was going to be an architect. In fact, I was studying to be an architect when the audition for 'The Monkees' came along.
Micky Dolenz The Monkees
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In reality some images or drawings have a greater impact than many buildings that are built.
Emilio Ambasz
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Every decision you've made will impact how things go. The player's also the architect of what happens.
Casey Hudson
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When an architect is asked what his best building is, he usually answers, "The next one."
Emilio Ambasz
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I love paper. A nice thick pile of it and a pencil, and I'm content.
Cecil Balmond
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The bungalow was a hideous red-brick structure built, if I had to guess, in the early 1980s by some hack architect who’d been aiming at art deco and hit Tracy Emin instead.
Ben Aaronovitch
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Architect's designs must refer to the unquestionable perfection of the body's symmetry and proportions. If a building is to create a sense of eurythmia, it is essential that it mirrors these natural laws of harmony and beauty
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
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“Each man is the architect of his own fortune.”
Appius Claudius Caecus
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The fact is: You are not a manager of circumstance, you're the architect of your life's experience.
Anthony Robbins
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I have had built, from my designs, over 40,000 living units, and that's more than any other architect that I know of.
William Krisel
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My affection for CinemaScope initially was my affection for the horizontal line as I learned it from having been apprenticed to an architect who was someone named Frank Lloyd Wright.
Nicholas Ray