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All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art like the art of fireworks.

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Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Category: Architecture

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.
  • 2. Old age has its pleasures which though different are not less than the pleasures of youth.
  • 3. The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Magic is the oldest part of the show business profession. It can now be used as a forward-thinking tool to build a child's confidence. It has been an amazing part in many entertainers' lives including Steve Martin and the late Johnny Carson.
  • 2. I want to be a morning-talk-show host. I love Kelly Ripa's job. She gets to live in New York and has this amazing job hosting a talk show.
  • 3. You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows.

3 Anger

  • 1. When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.
  • 2. The Anger Management Tour was another beautiful thing. I loved that tour.
  • 3. All improv turns into anger. All comedy improv basically turns into anger because that's all people know how to do when they're improvising. If you notice shows that are improvising are generally people yelling at each other.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.
  • 2. June 2005 is the five year anniversary of the debut of Battle Pope.
  • 3. I didn't make my first solo record until 1981 so I don't have any 60's or 70's recordings but I am working on a large boxed set called DUST to be released next year the 20th anniversary of my first solo record.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I feel however that we architects have a special duty and mission… (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.
  • 2. Rationalism is the enemy of art though necessary as a basis for architecture.
  • 3. Less is more.
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