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David Chipperfield Quotes

It used to be presumed that if you weren't at your desk working, you weren't working, But we said, 'Why can't we make a workplace where casual meetings are as important as working at your desk?' Sometimes that's where your better creative work happens.

David Chipperfield

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: architect
Nationality: british
Birth: December 18, 1953

Topics

Work Creative Better Meetings You

What's most explosive about historical fiction is to use the fictional elements to pressure the history to new insights.

History Pressure New Historical Most

So it helped me to just let go of all my tensions and feelings about that world and say 'OK, this is for my fans in Japan. They'll be nice and get into it and have fun.' And it was the first record I made at my home studio.

Home Fun Me World Have Fun Feelings

I belong to the political party that generally fits my philosophical beliefs, but I reserve the right to vote my conscience after careful deliberation. My voting record reflects this.

Jeff Fortenberry

Voting Political Party Vote Right

The two largest oil-producing countries in Latin America, Mexico and Venezuela, sold petroleum to Nicaragua at concessional rates for several years beginning in 1980. The program was curtailed because Nicaragua could not make even reduced payments.

Beginning America Two Years Mexico

Kristen Bell is rare as an actress, because she's the type of actor who jumps out of a plane without a parachute - from a totally fearless place, which is really refreshing and inspiring.

Fearless Place Actor She Refreshing

I'm a sucker for sad disco pop.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Sad Disco Pop Sucker

Well, success does not mean doing well.

Shirley MacLaine

Success Doing Mean Well Does

In 1984, I returned to Newnham College at Cambridge University to teach after completing my Ph.D. there a couple of years earlier. Almost all of my colleagues in the university's classics department were men, and my office at the all-women's college was in the dorm.

Men College Colleagues Teach Office

I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.

You Moral Want Religious Suggest

The most used piece of kit in my kitchen is my saucepan. I use it every morning to cook my porridge in. The least used piece of equipment? I'd say a food mixer. I've never used it, I don't really know what they're for.

Morning Food Kitchen Know Say Never

If an idea comes and I am attracted to it, I will do it.

I Am Will Idea Attracted Am

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

Stupidity You Underestimate Never

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