Renzo Piano Quotes

When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only the theoretical architect believes that you can make the concept and then sometime, somebody will come to build it.

Renzo Piano

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DetailBuildingStartDesignYouUp

I am just a thorn in everybody's side.

John McAfee

I AmSideThornJustEverybodyAm

After about 20 years of the real estate industry - where we had built it up from a little one-off, just five-agent operation - we built that that into a four-office, 65-agent, multimillion-dollar firm. At that point, I relocated to my ranch in eastern Montana and really thought that I was going to spend much of my time in ranching.

Matt Rosendale

TimeReal EstateThoughtRealUp

Sometimes you walk out of an audition and you kind of know you nailed it and you're probably going to book it, but you very rarely are told in the room by the people who are hiring you.

Michael Cudlitz

WalkPeopleBookYouKnowSometimes

I was always into things like Boyz II Men and boy bands, and then I got into Radiohead and alt-rock.

St. Lucia

MenBoyAlwaysThingsGotLike

It's particularly exhausting because Medea is defined by her determination. The role is all about endeavour.

Diana Rigg

DeterminationHerBecauseRoleAbout

I'm in agreement with David Miliband when he says our generation of Labour politicians are not willing to hand over the direction of the country without a serious electoral fight.

Douglas Alexander

FightDirectionGenerationCountry

Any collective action is made up of individuals who one day decided not to sit and watch anymore.

Boots Riley

DayActionOne DayUpWatchSit

When I met Mourinho, I was still very young, but mentally and tactically, he worked on me. He was really demanding: you could not take a step below your level.

Arjen Robben

StepMeYouYoungTakeLevel

Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces?

Auberon Herbert

YouMoralityMoralFirstSeeOut

I was seeing people of color growing up in my media. I was seeing them in positions of power.

Winston Duke

PowerPeopleGrowing UpColorMedia

I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.

Peter Ackroyd

PastBelieveIn The PastUsAround

Pets inspire many different types of behaviour in their owners, mostly ranging from adoration to ridiculous obsessiveness, in my experience.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

ExperienceInspireRidiculousPets

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