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In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.
The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it.
It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
You don't have to be famous. You just have to find your own coven of bad-asses that you trust and want to empower.
No matter who you are, where you've come from, what you've been through... You can make a difference in this world.
What do you say when someone takes on a really bad ass, murdering sucker for you? There just aren't words for that.
If the Olympic champion doesn't know how to jump quad, I don't know. Now it's not figure skating. Now it's dancing.
That's the classic nature of people, though. We'll skip the basics and get pissed when the sexy stuff doesn't work.
It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
When you can feel that close to something you're used to seeing from this great distance, well, it changes a person.
As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.
I don't underrate the value of military knowledge, but if men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.
I'm a kind person, I'm kind to everyone, but if you are unkind to me, then kindness is not what you'll remember me for
Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Your love for what you do and willingness to push yourself where others aren't prepared to go is what will make you great.
I am simply submerged in work from five in the morning to eleven at night; almost need a few days off to escape a breakdown!
You can turn your life around. You can through hell and back. It is possible. Never underestimate yourself. I believe in you.
These last few years we've seen an unacceptable abuse of power, having a president whose priority is expanding his own power.
If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.
It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.
All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
Friends, haters, it's Twitter poll time. What do you think most holds back justice and equality for women? All thoughts welcome!
Viktor Petrenko and I met at a competition, where I beat him completely accidentally. I felt so embarrassed in front of my idol.
I suggest taking the high road and have a little sence of humour and let things roll off your back. I think that's very important.
I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.
Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith there is no anxiety and no doubt - just absolute confidence in yourself.
Instead of looking in the mirror and focusing on your flaws, look in the mirror and appreciate your best features... everyone has them.
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
To experience the good you have to have seen the bad; plus it makes you appreciate blessings more. Tough times taught me to be a fighter.
My definition of bad-ass is that I'm a force of nature and true spirit. I'm self-admitting that, and it sounds vain to say that, but I am.
Pain was their body's way of telling them that they'd pushed themselves to their limits - which was exactly where they were supposed to be.
I admire women who can be feminists and fight for women's rights, who believe in our powers as individuals and yet not apologize for beauty.
Trust me, if you do an honest 20 rep program, at some point Jesus will talk to you. On the last day of the program, he asked if he could work in.
A profound design process eventually makes the patron, the architect, and every occasional visitor in the building a slightly better human being.
I grew up in the 80s in England: we'd wake up each morning and look out the window to see if the government had finally put Daleks on the streets.
I don't think anyone should apologize for being sexy if it comes from a genuine place, if they're not being forced into an objectifying situation.
But we have to understand why we do what we do, not just do what we do. Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
If you touch me, I said pleasantly, "I'll provide you with the ability to see if you can heal yourself. Then we'd see how bad ass you really are."
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
Can you imagine a 6 year old banging all day on a drum kit. I do have photos of me in my sort of princess girly bedroom with a bad-ass sparkle set.
What do we do with a president who can basically change what Congress passed by attaching a letter saying I don't agree with this part or that part?
Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,' they'd say I was an illiterate dolt.
People are always like, Why did you and husband Carey Hart get back together? Well, we weren't done. And now we have Willow, so we'll never be done.
Architecture never derived its force from stability of culture, but rather from the expression of those moments when that sense of stability slipped.