Tadao Ando Quotes

Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're based on Western methods and materials.

Tadao Ando

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The problem we've got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.

Jim DeMint

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In the role of Ziggy Stardust, Bowie seemed in 1972 like a strange alien creature, not so much coming from another planet as from a future age. His purpose: to warn us about a dangerous society where values were to be turned inside out.

Robert Hilburn

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The letters that say 'I'm getting the messages you're sending me through the television screen' are not great. But those are few and far between, thank God. I get wonderful letters, and people send me artwork.

Stephen Colbert

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We all get swept up in the hype machine. Nobody is immune to that.

Steven Cojocaru

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Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

Simone Weil

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I did the commencement speech at UNH in 2006, and one of the biggest jokes was a 'Guts' joke.

Mike O'Malley

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I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose.

Mike Royko

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My mother set us to an activity and let us be.

Julia Cameron

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I've always found it best to have a routine. I go to my study at the same time every day and climb into my bay window. I may not be inspired every day, but on the days I am, I need to be in place to write. If I'm not particularly inspired, I'll revise or do research or correspondence.

Diane Ackerman

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I was a great base umpire, but I was the most mediocre plate umpire to ever come into the major leagues.

Doug Harvey

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Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own music. That trailed into making your own pop music, and that's why garage bands started springing up everywhere.

Arlo Guthrie

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Any swagger is just defense. When you're reminded so much of who you are by people - not a fame thing, but with my size, constantly, growing up - you just either curl up in a corner in the dark or you wear it proudly, like armor or something. You can turn it on its head and use it yourself before anybody else gets a chance.

Peter Dinklage

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