Michael Arad Quotes

As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining the future of cities and the type of relationships and the types of places that we're making is something that intrigues me very much.

Michael Arad

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I think most people know when they're in a toxic relationship - it requires an enormous amount of effort to keep it going, and you don't get what you want from it.

Joanna Coles

RelationshipEffortPeopleThinkYou

I usually get freaked out if I'm in a situation where a lot of people recognise me at once.

Steve Buscemi

PeopleMeSituationOutWhereGet

The U.S. has fallen behind with tax policies that haven't been updated in a half-century.

Rob Portman

TaxBehindBeenFallenPolicies

As a cognitive neuroscientist and scholar of reading, I am particularly concerned with the plight of the reading brain as it encounters this technologically rich society.

Maryanne Wolf

I AmBrainSocietyReadingRichAm

So I concentrated on the rhythmic side of things, and therefore left a lot of holes. I didn't want to use big pad chords everywhere. All of the songs are built up of small melodies and counter melodies all played very rhythmically.

Midge Ure

SmallWantUpSideBigLeft

There's great sadness and life doesn't work out like you would want, on a lot of levels, but there's no need to feel all alone. This happens to everybody, so there's no self-pity. This is the ride that humans are on, and all of it is essential for our natural part of it.

Mike Mills

LifeWorkAloneGreatRideSadness

We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do.

Mira Nair

CommunicationKnowledgeUnderstanding

I'm constantly saying that I have bad hair days when I'm in New York. It's so hard. I've been lucky enough to jump immediately into a car, head straight to the location, and stay in the air-conditioning.

Christina Hendricks

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We need to have our children look up to real role models.

Corey Stewart

ChildrenLookNeedRealUpRole

When I was 27, if I didn't put 15 things in one dish I wasn't happy.

Wolfgang Puck

HappyThingsDishPut

The difference between a gas and a liquid is that in the former, the atoms and molecules move to and fro in an independent existence, whereas in the latter, they are always in touch with one another, though they are changing partners continually.

William Henry Bragg

IndependentTouchExistenceAtoms

Gossip, in its earlier forms, contained information that was critical to survival because, in clans of 150, what happened to anyone had a direct impact on everyone.

Peter Diamandis

ImpactSurvivalInformationGossip

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