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When I started my own practice, I was criticized, not because I was doing product design but because, like Le Corbusier, I was insisting on paintings in all of my buildings. I would paint wall murals in the houses that I designed, just as he did in the '20s and '30s.
Michael Graves
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I've been criticized for the things I chose and things I've chosen to do.


Lil Wayne
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We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.


Winston Churchill
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If you look at landscape in historical terms, you realize that most of the time we have been on Earth as a species, what has fallen on our retina is landscape, not images of buildings and cars and street lights.
Bill Viola
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Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.
Samantha Power
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My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.
Howard Hodgkin
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There's no demand for a body of work, though writers will be criticized for not having produced one.


David Rabe
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I'm on the MIT board, and a lot of our buildings now have daycare centers; it's becoming a standard.


Megan Smith
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I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
Billy Joel
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We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.
Henry David Thoreau
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It is very important that our young people have constructive early work experiences. But it is equally important that their jobs are safe and complement their education, rather than complete it.
Alexis Herman
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Everyone gets criticized.


LeAnn Rimes
What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can. I've been criticized on many, many occasions, because of - acquaintances, and what have you.
Frank Sinatra
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So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.
Minoru Yamasaki
I've been through my highs, I've been through my lows; I've been through the gamut of all things in this business. Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale. It's noise I block out automatically. I love my body.
Christina Aguilera
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
Warren Farrell
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Extreme weather threatens our energy and electric grid, federal buildings, transportation infrastructure, access to natural resources, public health, our relationships across the globe, and many other aspects of life.
Matt Cartwright
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Painters must speak through paint, not through words.


Hans Hofmann
I'm particularly interested in the public role that all buildings play. I believe that we architects should try to go beyond our basic obligations to the public, and our opportunities to do so are many.
Cesar Pelli
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Homes and buildings, many of which are old and drafty, eat up 40 percent of the energy America uses. Such inefficiencies perpetuate our reliance on foreign oil, imperiling our national security and increasing our contribution to climate change.
Peter Welch
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