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I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process.
Francisco Costa
To me, the fashion and architecture I like are very closely linked. Both should be clean and simple and without embellishment.
Leon Max
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Here lies W. C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia.


W. C. Fields
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I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal.
Jaron Lanier
Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.
Adolf Loos
I practised as an architect for 10 years. I qualified in 1973 with a fellowship diploma of architecture. World Series Cricket gave me the freedom to go out and pursue architecture.
Max Walker
I choose things that challenge me. I was afraid of the camera - that's why I chose to do 'Private Practice.' It's not like I left the theater.
Audra McDonald
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You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approach you than when you approach them.
Peace Pilgrim
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I don't see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don't define them separately, so I can't say one has helped the other, It's all the same thing. More than anything I love being on stage and performing.
Bebe Neuwirth
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The construction of an airplane is simple compared with the evolutionary achievement of a bird. If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
Charles Lindbergh
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When so-called child's play turns hostile, and a child becomes a victim, it is time to act. Victims of cyberbullying do not choose to participate. Rather than build character, bullying can cause children to become anxious, fearful, unhappy, and even cause them to be physically sick.
Linda Sanchez
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.


Salvador Dali
Politics separate men by bringing them together only superficially. Art and culture unite us in a common anguish that is our only possible fraternity, that of our existential and metaphysical community.
Eugene Ionesco
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People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.
Elon Musk
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I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.


James Polshek
In the studio, if they need to come down to the floor, things are a bit pushy, although it is easier for them to say things directly rather than through about five people.
Sarah Sutton
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The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun.
John Desmond Bernal
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It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first.
Jason Newsted
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If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface.
Emma Thompson
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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
Frank Lloyd Wright