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" We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. "
Winston Churchill
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" Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. "
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" India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator. "
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" Architecture produces a musical mood in our inner being, and we notice that even though the elements of architecture and music appear to be so alien in the outer world, through this musical mood engendered in us, our experience of architecture brings about a reconciliation, a balance between these two elements. "
Rudolf Steiner
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" I attended classes and taught classes, in Food Anthropology at Pace University, with an anthropology professor. You can trace history by the architecture and food of a place. Food is one of those things that transcends and stays in the culture. "
Lidia Bastianich
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" Observers and even some officials raise questions about the future of Greece as part of the Eurozone, while the Eurozone itself struggles to deal with fundamental flaws at the heart of its architecture. "
Charles Dallara
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" I am a failed architect, if I'm honest. I got a degree in art history and was about to get another degree, in architecture, but realized I would be terrible at building things because I've got really bad spatial awareness. "
Hannah Ware
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" The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it. "
Winston Churchill
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" Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong. "
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Right
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" I haven't really got a green thumb, but I love gardens and their architecture. "
Hubert de Givenchy
Green
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" As a viewer, that's work I respond to - work that I know is singular in some way. If I'm being challenged by something on screen, if I don't quite know why it's happening, I want to know I can do the work of pulling it apart and that there'll be something satisfactory about it. If the architecture is sound, you can be lyrical in execution. "
Shane Carruth
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" Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. "
Winston Churchill
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" A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. "
Winston Churchill
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" Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all. "
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" I went from fashion to glass in 1995, and I'm very interested in architecture. "
John Rocha
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Interested
" The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house. "
Thomas Reid
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Ship
Rules
" No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple. "
John Ruskin
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Haughty
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" If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture. "
Minoru Yamasaki
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" The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture. "
Salvador Dali
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" My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place. "
Bernard Tschumi
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" Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. "
Winston Churchill
Attention
Pain
Human
" You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. "
Winston Churchill
Up
Good
Life
" This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure. "
Winston Churchill
Dare
Comfort
Time
" We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. "
Winston Churchill
Never
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" The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself. "
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Man
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" I love seeing New York City Ballet from the fourth ring, just seeing the architecture of how these bodies move from above. "
Justin Peck
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" I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination. "
Maya Lin
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Architecture
Loved
" There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff. "
Peter Zumthor
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Need
Good
" I don't believe in morality in architecture. "
Michael Graves
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" Being interested in other fields and meeting experts outside entertainment - whether it's a two-hour conversation with John Nash that turns into 'A Beautiful Mind' or talking to people in architecture or fashion, CIA directors or Nobel laureates - has given me a better sense of which ideas feel authentic and new. "
Brian Grazer
Mind
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People
" A house is a machine for living in. "
Le Corbusier
House
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Machine