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Martin Filler Quotes

Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always been a highly cooperative enterprise.

Martin Filler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: September 17, 1948

Topics

Art Building Will Always Image Been

Give people enough guidance to make the decisions you want them to make. Don't tell them what to do, but encourage them to do what is best.

Jimmy Johnson

Best People Decisions Enough You

Getting my hair cut is just a very special moment for me. I don't know exactly why, but it's such an intimate, almost religious experience. I'm very careful with who gets to cut my hair.

Jens Lekman

Moment Experience Me Hair Know Why

Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music. Remember, he was a chocolate, cherubic-faced genius with an African American halo. He had an Afro halo. He was a kid who was capable of embodying all of the high possibilities and the deep griefs that besieged the African American psyche.

Michael Eric Dyson

Music Deep Chocolate American Genius

My father, being a Scotsman, taught me to look after finances. I'm shrewd. Some people may call me tight.

Rod Stewart

Father Finance People Me Look May

When you buy toothpaste or detergent or gas, that is now used for the first time in your lifetime or my lifetime to support candidates in so-called 'independent ads.' Same thing for unions.

Russ Feingold

Time Support You Independent Unions

It was an important and daring decision to open Eletrobras capital to private investors.

Michel Temer

Decision Important Open Daring

I've been writing songs since my teens.

Debra Stephenson

Writing Been Songs Since Teens

In the West, Rihanna, Chris Brown, Justin Bieber are the face of their songs.

Armaan Malik

Face West Brown Songs Justin Bieber

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

Arnold Bennett

Time Best Value Way Need Activities

I feel like a lot of black men 'put on' because of what they see and because of what people tell them they have to be.

Ashton Sanders

Men People Black Feel See Tell

The minimum wage is the black teenage unemployment act. It is the guaranteed way of holding the poor, the minorities and the disenfranchised out of the mainstream is if you price their original services too high.

Arthur Laffer

Black You Price Way Poor High

We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that. We started with a humble log house, milk cow, garden-raised our own food, killed a hog every year in the fall, and had the meat hanging up in the smokehouse - that was our childhood, me and ol' Si.

Phil Robertson

Humble Water Food Childhood Me Year