- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kids are always infatuated with the action in martial arts films. Let me tell you, there is nothing better for kids than the arts. That is what kept me straight and decent. I always had a place to go. That was the dojo. I always had something to look forward to doing.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been on, like, the forefront of social media. I run all my own pages, and this is back to MySpace and answering my own emails in, like, 2006. Even before that, I always had websites with emails that dropped directly to me.
- Nov 07, 2020
Keynes was a very good economist. He was brilliant. He had wonderful insights. His work has inspired me many times.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
We met, 'twas in a crowd, and I thought he would shun me.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
I prayed, thanking God, for making it all possible for me, because I knew where I came from.
- Hungry
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- Nov 07, 2020
The loss just made me hungry; it made me want to go out and win another title.
- British
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm wary of the word 'inventing,' because in the British psyche the word 'inventor' is immediately linked with 'mad'. For me, inventing is problem-solving.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a teenager, my father took me to the shows at the Architectural Association and to places like Milton Keynes back when it was first being built. But I couldn't find anything for me. There seemed to be despair at the possibility of the built environment possessing any imagination in the real world.
- Bridge
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I heard of the 'garden bridge' idea, it seemed so clear and powerful, the notion of using nature to scale down an enormous piece of potentially wind-swept exposed link. That's what struck me - not treating the bridge just as a link, but as a place.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very interested in buildings that have meaning for a particular place. I suppose it feels slightly rude to me if the imposed style that lands in a place is almost stronger than the place. For me it's about inventing a solution for each place; if people then want to know who did it, then great.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was little, I just was very tuned in to the functionality and aesthetics of things around me.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life to me is defined by uncertainty. Uncertainty is the state in which we live, and there is no way to outfox it.
- Entails
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- Nov 07, 2020
Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020