Michael Graves Quotes

When I started my own practice, I was criticized, not because I was doing product design but because, like Le Corbusier, I was insisting on paintings in all of my buildings. I would paint wall murals in the houses that I designed, just as he did in the '20s and '30s.

Michael Graves

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: architect
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 9, 1934 - March 12, 2015

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It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I started out in journalism in the mid '90s working for the sister wire service of the 'Wall Street Journal,' which is called Dow Jones Newswires. Then I joined the 'Journal' in its Brussels bureau back in 1999.

John Carreyrou

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Tony Bennett is an iconic jazz legend.

Andra Day

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For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.

Sidney Altman

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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.

Tom Landry

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I wish that there were more stringent laws to make guns sold anywhere that they're legal harder to get.

Rosie O'Donnell

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My dad, like, he's the most trusting human in the world.

Miley Cyrus

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Visit USA.gov and you'll find thousands of directorates, agencies, boards, offices, and services replete with overlapping responsibilities, ancient priorities, and divided accountability.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

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I happen to think, really, that I'm good at what I do.

Dinah Manoff

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I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

Claude Levi-Strauss

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I did 'Beetlejuice,' and it was a big movie, but it didn't help my high-school experience. In fact, it made it worse. I was a freak and a witch.

Winona Ryder

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For a long-running TV show, you're looking for a character who is interesting and vibrant and you can imagine going into all kinds of different areas.

Scott Bakula

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