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• To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

  Ai Weiwei

  Badass, Criticism, Architecture

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• Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

  Donatella Versace

  Fashion, Creativity, Ideas

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Never sit a table when you can stand at the bar.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Tables, Bars

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• Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Marriage, Sarcastic

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• I am not the least afraid to die

  Charles Darwin

  Famous Last Words, Dies, Dying Last Words

  Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1958). “Autobiography and Selected Letters”, p.348, Courier Corporation

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• The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Witty, Badass, Mistake

  The New York Times Magazine, October 04, 1953.

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• All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Badass, Architecture, Fine

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1995). “1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Life, Witty

  Oscar Wilde (1947). “The Happy Prince”, p.16, New Line Publishing

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• Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got.

  Steven Pressfield

  Art, Selfish, Creativity

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.165, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.

  Olivia Wilde

  Play, People, Dumb

  "Olivia Wilde On Turning 30: ‘I’m Welcoming This Development With Open Arms", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 5, 2013.

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• It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

  Edward de Bono

  Business, Creativity, Ideas

  Norah Maier, Edward De Bono (1982). “Teaching the gifted, challenging the average”, Univ of Toronto

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• The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it.

  Twyla Tharp

  Creativity, People, Laughing

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• I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Relationship, Men

  Atlas Shrugged pt. 3, ch. 1 (1957)

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• People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Revenge, Badass, People

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• Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Badass, Space, Design

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Alexander von Vegesack, Matthias Kries, Vitra Design Museum (1998). “Mies van der Rohe: architecture and design in Stuttgart, Barcelona, Brno”, Skira - Berenice

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• It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, “Peace! Peace!” — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

  Patrick Henry

  Life, Sweet, Peace

  Speech in Virginia Convention, Richmond, Va., 23 Mar. 1775.

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• The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

  "A Living Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesin Architects". Book by John Rattenbury, 2000.

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• We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.

  Bill Bryson

  Badass, Civilization, Shopping

  Bill Bryson (1991). “Neither here nor there: travels in Europe”, Harvill Secker

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• Let justice be done though the heavens should fall.

  John Adams

  Fall, Justice, Heaven

  John Adams, Robert Joseph Taylor (1983). “Papers of John Adams”

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• Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.

  Joss Whedon

  Work, Writing, Publish

  "Dollhouse’s Joss Whedon Answers Your Questions" by Rebecca Harper, blog.hulu.com. March 6, 2009.

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  The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspirational, Strength, Motivational Sports

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• Journalism is just a gun. It’s only got one bullet in it, but if you aim right, that’s all you need. Aim it right, and you can blow a kneecap off the world.

  Warren Ellis

  Blow, Gun, Needs

  "Transmetropolitan. Back on the Street (issues #1–3)". Comic book by Warren Ellis,

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• I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Death, Fountainhead

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.783, Penguin

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• Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

  Terry Pratchett

  I Hate You, Science, Dark

  "Criminal Minds: Conflicted". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2009.

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