Elizabeth Diller Quotes

As a student, I hadn't really been interested in architecture at all, but when I started teaching, it grew into me - rather than me growing into it.

Elizabeth Diller

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ArchitectureMeStudentGrowingBeen

When I very first started out, I had that arrogance of youth.

Joely Richardson

YouthArroganceFirstOutStarted

My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band and was a bit nerdy.

Jennifer Garner

CommunitySchoolWorldBandTwo

People compare me to Angelina Jolie, and she's so serious and stoic. I'm the opposite.

Megan Fox

PeopleMeSeriousSheOpposite

Well we have a good working relationship with Microsoft at the development level. But let's not kid ourselves, this is a company with enormous resources and talented people, and there is a certain pride that comes along with that for them and for us.

John W. Thompson

GoodRelationshipPeoplePrideKid

Not only would my parents work full hours, my parents both woke up at 5 A.M. My dad left the house at 5 A.M. to go to the fish market to pick out his own fish, and my mom woke up at 5 A.M. to wake me up in order to get me ready for skating before school.

Mirai Nagasu

WorkSchoolParentsMeMomFish

When we make purchases on credit, they give us only an illusion of prosperity.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

CreditIllusionProsperityUsGive

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

WorldSurviveSmallIceWonderOwn

I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.

Brian Eno

IdeasCelebrityEvolveLikeHow

If you ask me, I would love to see works like Sharat Chandra Chatterjee's 'Badi Didi,' Munshi Premchand's 'Nirmala,' and Phanishwar Nath Renu's 'Maila Anchal' come alive on small screen.

Ashish Sharma

LoveMeSmallYouAliveSee

I've always been fascinated by books. When I was young, my grandfather used to hand out a book - which would be anything from a biography to a classic - to me every week and ask me to write a piece on what I thought about it. On the other hand, my mother used to love reading thrillers and bestsellers.

Ashwin Sanghi

LoveMotherMeBookReadingThought

I have an aunt who believed strongly that teaching kids that Shakespeare is 'hard' is wrong, so she handed me 'Hamlet' when I was in kindergarten to see what would happen. What happened was I did a book report on 'Hamlet' and caused quite a lot of trouble!

Seanan McGuire

MeBookWrongTroubleSheSee

The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art.

Ricky Jay

GoodArtPainDoingMagicBad

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