Steven Holl Quotes

I'm sorry to say, but 85% of so-called 'green' firms make some of the ugliest buildings that were ever made. So for God's sake, I don't want to be categorized with them.

Steven Holl

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GodGreenSorryBuildingsSayWant

When you get called to come in and audition for Tarantino, it's incredibly exciting.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

YouGetComeExcitingAudition

My favorite conference so far has been Davos, the World Economic Forum. The people there were really incredible.

Robert Scoble

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I don't think anyone will believe me, but I've never been pressured by a publisher to churn out a book.

Michael Connelly

MeBookBelieveThinkWillNever

Learning great works like the Liszt Sonata or Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' should be a struggle to a certain extent, where you need to labor intensely with your own brain and soul for the meaning of the work instead of cutting and pasting a bunch of stuff together from the Internet and - boom! - there you are with a performance ready to go.

Stephen Hough

WorkLearningGreatStruggleSoul

To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.

Sugar Ray Robinson

Believe In YourselfYourselfBelieve

The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves.

Stanley Baldwin

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I was like the class clown in school so I guess I would say I did like the attention. In church I did a lot of plays, my mother made me play characters, do a lot of drama and acting, trying to become someone else. So it helped me create who I am, to create Snoop Dogg.

Snoop Dogg

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I enjoy waking up in the morning and thinking, 'Who do I want to be today?'

Trinny Woodall

MorningTodayThinkingEnjoyWant

The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.

Shimon Peres

PowerHistoryGreatMoneyIdeas

If you lose a parent, no matter at what age, every five or 10 years you have a different way of missing them and a different way of getting on with your life.

Rory Kinnear

LifeAgeParentYouLoseWay

As a kid, I watched 'Bugs Bunny' cartoons, and for some reason Pepe Le Pew, the indomitable French skunk pursuing his would-be kitty paramour, left his mark on me: became an instant emblem of odoriferous hubris, hedonistic bad behavior. He was an entry-level Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a rookie Marquis de Sade.

Michael Paterniti

MeBehaviorBadKidReasonBunny

I want to find my own rhythm and style. That's probably the harder way to approach it, but I think it will pay off in the long run.

Michael Pena

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