Thom Mayne Quotes

I fought violently for the autonomy of architecture. It's a very passive, weak profession where people deliver a service. You want a blue door, you get a blue door. You want it to look neo-Spanish, you get neo-Spanish. Architecture with any authenticity represents resistance. Resistance is a good thing.

Thom Mayne

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GoodServiceArchitectureBlueDoor

I was never, ever once angry in the ring.

Joe Frazier

AngryRingNeverOnceEver

I was always the girl who had that baby face.

Jessica Capshaw

GirlBabyFaceAlwaysWhoHad

Nobody trusts the industrial food system to give them good food.

Joel Salatin

GoodFoodGood FoodNobodySystem

Design has long gone from tinkering and sketching of auteurs in isolation to a powerful catalyzer of growth.

Jens Martin Skibsted

GrowthIsolationDesignPowerful

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

Anatole France

ManAnimalWorstHimOutRational

I like playing characters that are true to life, and there's no guarantee that any of us are going to be okay, but we intend to be, and we take the time to try to be. I don't think it's any different for a character.

Mehcad Brooks

LifeCharacterTimeThinkTrueOkay

I played sports. I had boyfriends. I loved high school.

Ann Coulter

SportsSchoolHigh SchoolLovedHigh

If I were a man, I'd be allowed to play roles that were compelling and drove an audience to an emotional response.

Amber Heard

ManPlayAudienceEmotionalResponse

I was the kind of reader in smudged pink harlequin glasses sitting on the cool, dusty floor of the Arrandale public library, standing at the edge of the playground, having broken a tooth in dodge ball, and lying under my covers with a flashlight.

Amy Bloom

BrokenCoolGlassesPinkLibrary

For my money, the movies of the '70s were just amazing.

Amy Heckerling

MoneyAmazingMoviesJustWere

There are Americans will find it difficult to believe that the Prime Minister can simply impose candidates on ridings, and can so efficiently move individuals out of private life and into the Cabinet with virtually no resort to the electorate.

Stockwell Day

LifeBelieveFindWillDifficult

I've been dancing for 20 years. I just kept doing the same job that I've always done.

Stormy Daniels

JobDoingDoneSameAlwaysDancing

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