Architect Quotes - Page 12

• Yet another video has emerged of MIT professor and Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber calling Americans 'stupid,' and bragging about how the Affordable Care Act's drafters had to deceive the public in order to pass the law.

  Alexander Viets Griswold

  Stupid, Law, Obamacare

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• I felt that there's an obligation when writing a piece about an urban expressway made in the 50s to acknowledge the context, and Robert Moses is sort of an iconic figure in New York, and he influenced the shape of the city more than anyone else before or after him. He was one of the most powerful and influential civic architects in the world, because of how much he transformed the city. He built multiple bridges and highways and parks and recreational spaces, beaches - in the course of a few decades, he completely changed the city

  Sufjan Stevens

  Beach, New York, Powerful

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Inconsistency itself breeds vitality.

  Kenzo Tange

  Vitality, Inconsistency

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• I love paper. A nice thick pile of it and a pencil, and I'm content.

  Cecil Balmond

  Nice, Paper, Pencils

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• I have had built, from my designs, over 40,000 living units, and that's more than any other architect that I know of.

  William Krisel

  Design, Units, Built

  "Meet The Architect Who Helped Bring Modernism To The Masses". Interview with Matt Guilhem, kvcrnews.org. February 21, 2016.

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• I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great American architects of our history who have stood here before me; pride in the reflection that this home of legislative debate represents human liberty in the purest form yet devised.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Home, Humility

  Douglas MacArthur's farewell address to a Joint Session of Congress, www.americanrhetoric.com. April 19, 1951.

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• Whatever may be the judgement pronounced on the competency of the architects of the Constitution, or whatever may be the destiny of the edifice prepared by them, I feel it a duty to express my profound and solemn conviction . . . that there never was an assembly of men, charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or more exclusively or anxiously devoted to the object committed to them.

  James Madison

  Destiny, Men, Profound

  James Madison, E. H. Scott (1898). “Journal of the Federal Convention”, p.51, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• Artists dismiss me as an architect, so I'm not in their box, and architects dismiss me as an artist, so I'm not in their box.

  Frank Gehry

  Artist, Boxes

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• The architect Borromini's Quattro Fontane, a little church in Rome, is one of the most beautiful rooms in history.

  Frank Gehry

  Beautiful, Rome, Church

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• Computers allow architects to remain parental instead of being marginalized by the contractors and managers.

  Frank Gehry

  Computer, Parental, Contractor

  Source: www.playboy.com

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• If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility.

  Frank Gehry

  Responsibility, Serious, Ifs

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• Those who say only artists and architects can create are the ones who are elitist.

  Frank Gehry

  Artist, Elitist

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• I attended a lecture by a gray-haired old man from Finland, who later I discovered was the architect Alvar Aalto. I was very moved. I wasn't interested in architecture, but it was a moving thing I've never forgotten.

  Frank Gehry

  Moving, Men, Lectures

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• Though there are things beyond our understanding, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness.

  Yasmina Khadra

  Understanding, Unhappiness

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• When I was a carpenter, I once worked with this Russian lady architect. I would tell her, ‘Look, I’m terribly sorry, but I want to change that a half inch,’ and she would say, ‘No limit for better.’ I think that is a worthy credo. You keep on going until you get it as close to being right as the time and patience of others will allow.

  Harrison Ford

  Sorry, Thinking, Looks

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• Also one of my heroes is Syd Mead, who designed the vehicles for the first Tron. So, there are so many beautiful things happening here. And working with Joe was great. He's an architect, so I worked with other directors in between who were just about the action.

  Daniel Simon

  Beautiful, Hero, Firsts

  "Interview with Tron: Legacy vehicle concept designer Daniel Simon". Interview with Toni-Marie Ippolito, www.tribute.ca. December 1, 2010.

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• You’re kind of a psycho. I get that.” “I might be,” Monica agreed, and gave her a slow, strange smile. “You’re one smart little freak. Now run away, smart little freak, before I change my mind and stick you in one of these old suitcases for some architect to find a hundred years from now.” Claire blinked. “Archaeologist.” Monica’s eyes turned winter cold. “Oh, you’d better start running away now.

  Rachel Caine

  Running, Smart, Eye

  Rachel Caine (2010). “The Morganville Vampires:”, p.107, Penguin

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• To create, one must first question everything.

  Eileen Gray

  Creativity, Creating, Design

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• The thing is, I hate the celebrity architect thing. I just do my work.

  Frank Gehry

  Hate, I Hate

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and secure basis and thus enjoy the reward which I desire, but only if I may be called the author of the best possible government; and bear with me the hope when I die that the foundations which I have laid for its future government, will stand firm and stable.

  Augustus

  Latin, Government, Desire

  "Divus Augustus". Book by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus translated by Robert Graves, 1957.

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• There was nobody in the family who had ever done anything like that before. My brothers - I had two brothers. They were twins. They both became architects. They were both six years older.

  Maggie Smith

  Brother, Years, Two

  "Maggie Smith On The Pressures Of Acting: 'You Want So Much To Get It Right'". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 23, 2016.

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• A surreal and ultimately disgusting facet of the Iraq fiasco is the lag between when a fact becomes obvious and when the fiasco's architects acknowledge that fact.

  George Will

  Iraq, Lag, Facts

  "Togetherness In Baghdad" by George Will, www.newsweek.com. November 5, 2006.

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• The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Hope, Optimism, Needed

  Henry Ward Beecher (1893). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons from the Stenographic Reports by T.J. Ellinwood. September 1868 to September 1873”

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• There is a danger when every building has to look spectacular; to look like it is changing the world. I don't care how a building looks if it means something, not to architects, but to the people who use it.

  David Chipperfield

  Badass, Mean, Bad Ass

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• The challenge of today's generation of architects is the environment.

  Carol Ross Barney

  Challenges, Today, Generations

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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