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Norman Foster Quotes

As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: architect
Nationality: british
Birth: June 1, 1935

Topics

Future Past Present Design You

I think hard-core capitalism tends to commercialize everything.

Capitalism Think Everything I Think

I think, in a world of mouths, I want to be an ear.

World Think Want Ear I Think Mouths

The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key... and bolt the door at once.

Safety Door Law Texas Key Country

While the rest of the country is still talking about welfare reform, Texas is implementing it.

Rest Texas Talking Country Welfare

And understandably so, that when you're in legal jeopardy, you really cannot put yourself in a position to open yourself up to the media.

Monica Lewinsky

Yourself Legal Media You Open Up

All those car battles with my brother Ned were excellent training. Even now, on the set, if we're getting into a vehicle, I'll yell 'shotgun' first. Thus forcing Steve Martin into the back of the car.

Car Training Brother Back Now First

I think I need the demons in order to write, but the demons have gone. It bothers me a lot. I've tried and tried, but I just can't seem to find a melody.

Me Think Demons Find Write Need

My mother's English, and she always was fascinated by the desert.

Mother Desert She Always English

I am not someone who believes I am going to find a historical scoop.

I Am Someone Find Historical Going

The weight comes off, you know? If you stop with the bread and the pie, it really does. It really works.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

You Pie Stop Bread Know Off

My greatest influence has and always will be my mother. I admire her strength, fearlessness, and optimism.

Selah Louise Marley

Strength Mother Optimism Influence

When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do that, I'd make documentaries.

Want Become Never Propaganda Film

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