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Minoru Yamasaki Quotes

And I like the idea of change. Because I don't see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then just not think of it anymore because it's there like a piece of furniture.

Minoru Yamasaki

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: architect
Nationality: american
Birth: December 1, 1912 - February 6, 1986

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Change Painting Think Furniture Wall

I think the U.K. would be perfectly successful as a standalone country, part of the European marketplace like Norway and Switzerland but without the expensive E.U. bureaucracy.

Jim Ratcliffe

Think Country Bureaucracy Switzerland

I have all my life fought against prejudice, having been subjected to it myself.

John Galliano

Life Myself My Life Prejudice Been

If you set the attractiveness bar really low, people have to compliment you on your looks when they meet you in person. I'm pretty much a genius. I'm actually applying to work at the Genius Bar based on this trick.

Megan Amram

Work People Genius You Person Meet

But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth.

Anita Roddick

People Stock Market Worth You Wealth

I look at ordinary objects, and I see things that other people don't see. That's why I'm a photographer.

Ruth Bernhard

People Look Why Photographer See

There's no national strategy to deal with combating terrorism and foreign fighters.

Michael McCaul

Strategy Terrorism Deal Fighters

I believe in being prepared. I'm going to say that. Pray, prepare, proceed.

Judith Jamison

Believe Say I Believe Prepare Going

What I'm trying to argue, as passionately as I can, is that the Jesus story isn't worth dying for, it's worth living for. Jesus presents a third way, a way of being in the worth that embraces the Sermon on the Mount, with its challenge to violence and greed.

Jay Parini

Challenge Story Greed Violence Worth

I wasn't even a big comedy nerd. A lot of the comedians I know - a lot of my friends are comedians - they knew a lot about comedy growing up.

Demetri Martin

Growing Up Comedy Friends Know Big

I don't know what's the matter with me, why I'm so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor.

David Shields

Life Me Feel Distance Know Why

I was offered a role in the series 'Homeland,' which I couldn't do because the dates clashed with my film with the Bhatts - 'Khamoshiyan.' But I wish I had done it. Look at how much notice the series got Nimrat Kaur.

Ali Fazal

Wish Look Done I Wish Film Role

Love and compassion don't at all have to make us weak, or lead us to losing discernment and vision. We just have to learn how to find them. And see, in truth, what they bring us.

Sharon Salzberg

Love Truth Vision Compassion Losing