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Richard Rogers Quotes

Clearly, private developers can have different aims, and architects can only play a certain role. You can have some pretty big battles on public commissions, too. The key is to have a good client.

Richard Rogers

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: architect
Nationality: british
Birth: July 23, 1933

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Good Key You Play Battles Clearly

Television provokes strong opinions, and sometimes we try a bit too hard to appeal to everyone.

Jo Brand

Strong Opinions Television Sometimes

Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation.

John Witherspoon

Trust Men Wish Choose Conversation

There is an audience for every play; it's just that sometimes it can't wait long enough to find it.

Shirley Booth

Wait Enough Long Find Play Audience

The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for this interracial family - my mom is white and I was a 1-year-old half-African kid - to live in the apartment building.

Tom Morello

Family Live Mom Real Estate Building

As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes wonder if we'll survive our own ingenuity.

Diane Ackerman

World Survive Small Ice Wonder Own

Animals come from nature. They were not designed. All my inspiration comes from nature, whether it's an animal or the layout of bark or of a leaf. Sometimes my patterns are very bold, and you can barely see where they come from, but all the textures and all the prints come out of nature.

Diane von Furstenberg

Nature Animal Leaf You Bold Animals

Before our albums are released I feel like we still own it, that we have control over our music. But once it's out there in the world it's no longer ours.

Chris Martin

Music Control World Feel Over Out

Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying.

Bobby Jones

People Think Some People Some Merely

Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity.

Paulo Coelho

Life Joy Fake Picture You Know

Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin for His righteousness.

Tullian Tchividjian

Love God Grace Sin Righteousness

It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.

Rene Daumal

Language Enough Clarity Goal Content

When our purpose is external, we may never find it. If we tie our purpose or meaning to our vocation, goal or an activity, we're more than likely setting ourselves up for suffering down the line.

Kris Carr

Purpose Suffering Meaning Goal Down