Philip Freelon famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I derive a tremendous amount of pride in developing places that everyday people can experience. I like to create beauty in everyday lives.
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I don't do casinos or prisons; I like to do projects that enhance the lives of everyday people, like campus buildings, libraries, museums and government buildings. That's why I love working in the public sector.
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I always say African American history is the quintessential American story. It's about perseverance and resilience - something everyone can relate to.
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The number of African Americans in my profession is woefully small; about two percent of architects in the country are black. I'd like to see more diversity. That's why whenever I'm asked to speak at middle and high schools I always say yes.
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African Americans were responsible for creating a lot of this beautiful and elaborate ironwork; we weren't just working in the cotton fields.
-- Philip Freelon
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Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.
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A true disciple inquires not whether a fact is agreeable to his own reason.His pride has yielded to the divine testimony.
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Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.
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My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.
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Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.
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Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.
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As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.
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This-the immediate, everyday, and present experience-is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.
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