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I'm strong-willed. Architects are strong-willed. You get the best results with a strong client and a strong architect working together.
Eli Broad
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The phoebe-bird is a wise architect and perhaps enjoys as great an immunity from danger, both in its person and its nest, as any other bird. Its modest ashen-gray suit is the color of the rocks where it builds, and the moss of which it makes such free use gives to its nest the look of a natural growth or accretion.
John Burroughs
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In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.
Zaha Hadid
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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
Ted Dexter
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I thought acknowledging praise meant you were arrogant, but I've learned that knowing your strengths enables you to make use of them.
Donna Brazile
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The point came when people were doing things I didn't feel competent to do myself. I'm not being modest; I honestly get lost. I was lucky in spotting what I did when I did, but there comes a point where you realise what you're doing is not going to be much good.
Peter Higgs
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It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.
Luis Barragan
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I feel like I write songs for the future or something. Not in an arrogant way, but I feel like maybe my songs were, like, before their time or something.
Ellie Goulding
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Am I arrogant? I've been arrogant, sure; everybody's been arrogant.


Kevin Spacey
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By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.
Sextus Propertius
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Things can change only through strong personalities. I am not very good at supporting ignorance and mediocrity, so maybe this leads to arrogant gestures and arrogant responses. So, nobody's perfect.
Edi Rama
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I thought if I was lucky it would be a nice, modest-sized, modest-budgeted film that would be a modest success. And then something happened.
David Heyman
I liked flying, when I got into it, loved it. And I found I was very good at it. I'm not modest about the fact that I was a good pilot.
John Glenn
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No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.
Michael Ende
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Architects are not clients. We can't build without something to built.


Richard Rogers
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I think architects are often at their best when faced with restraints.


Bernard Tschumi
I started out from a pretty modest background, so I always had a pretty good sense of money. I always had to work for my money, save my own money, I always bought my own stuff with my money... trying not to waste money unnecessarily.
Marco Arment
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Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous.


Bill Bradley
I grew up in a time when Eames and Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright and other architects were putting their furniture and objects on the market. You could buy some of those objects on the open market. Eames was a huge influence on all of us in school.
Michael Graves
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Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.


William Shakespeare
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