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To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.
He shouldn't have been in the NBA, but we were too cheap to pay for a point guard.
In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose.
Reproductive freedom means economic freedom. And that's what this debate is about.
I’d said it before and meant it: Alive or undead, the love of my life was a badass.
Adrian gave me a look that said I was wasting his time. "Because Jet sounds badass.
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.
I’m a pretty gentle person so I don’t really have much of a thing of being a badass.
I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
ACCEPT PRAISE FOR ITS WORTH - POLITENESS. BE BRUTALLY FRANK WITH YOURSELF. IT'S SAFER.
Maybe I was a pirate in my past life. I didn’t kill people, though. I was just a badass
I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.
I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.
We live in a time of renaissance ... cities are coming back to life, after a long neglect.
There will be no withdrawal without written orders and these orders shall never be issued.
If you're creating anything at all, it's really dangerous to care about what people think.
I love technology, and I don't think it's something that should divide along gender lines.
Of course, I thought I was badass at sixteen, too. Wait, I was badass at sixteen. Oh, yeah.
If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.
The president already has a Nobel Prize for peace. I think he's shooting for one in fiction.
I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.
It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.
If you come back in here, I'm gonna hit you with so many rights, you're gonna beg for a left.
It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.
Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.
You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.
I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism.
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I nor the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.
Never stop being YOU. I am out to be the best ME I can be. Do what you LOVE and you will be badass.
If a young woman is looking at the landscape of Hollywood, what she sees is almost only challenges.
Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.
COULD I PASS A WEEK IN THE INSANE WARD AT BLACKWELL'S ISLAND? I SAID I COULD AND I WOULD. AND I DID.
There two things that are infinite, human stupidity and the universe, I don't know about the universe
There is only one god and his name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death: “Not today.
One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.
So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you.
Nothing in this world is more simple and more cheap than making cities that provide better for people.
People always ask me if I wish I were bigger. I tell them no. I always wanted to be a miniature badass.
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention. But you have to get there.
I'm going to help the committee regardless of any position I have. I will volunteer to be a summer intern.
The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.
I believe there's 31 flavors to be tasted. . . I'm just living my life. I don't want to be your kind of good.
We can't do this without you," I managed at last. "Everyone talks about my powers, but you're the badass here.
Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.