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“A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.”
“That penetrating gaze, that intelligence; it's hard not to be anthropomorphic when you're looking at a great ape - at any primate - but especially with gorillas. They're just so magnificent.”
“Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's...”
“She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now to...”
“I'm a lucky person because I've been loved a lot. I have a great family.”
“Our responsibility is to rally and lead the whole party and the Chinese people of all ethnic groups, take up this historic baton and continue working hard for the great renewal of the Chinese natio...”
“In all seriousness, it really should be difficult for me to be too strange. After all, a great family raised me.”
“My family's story isn't special. What's special is the America that makes our story possible. Ours is a nation like no other, a place where great journeys can be made in a single generation. No mat...”
“Being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as any songwriter could have - to be taken away from one's family and locked away for 10 years. It does create an incredible i...”
“The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.”
“I'm healthy, have a loving and adorable family, great hunting dogs, a gravity defying musical career and most importantly, fuzzy-headed idiots hate me.”
“Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.”
“A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.”
“Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.”
“Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand.”
“Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.”
“Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways.”
“Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.”
“Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made.”
“There will never be great architects or architecture without great patrons.”
