"Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride."

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Source : Antoine Predock, Brad Collins, Juliette Robbins (1994). “Antoine Predock, architect”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

Antoine Predock

#Intellectual Quotes #Architecture Quotes

“Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning.”

Source : Quoted in Reader's Digest, Oct. 1984
“I feel very discouraged with the state of gay and lesbian publishing because I don't feel like we're really welcome in the mainstream and then you get ghettoized and put on some lesbian book club reading list where you don't want to be either.”

Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.
“Don't think because there's a ring on your finger, you needn't try anymore.”
“It's probably like a fade-hawk. It's kind of a mohawk, it's skin-tight on the sides. But I couldn't go straight Mr. T though. I had to blend it a little bit in case I wear a suit. I would say it's more blended.”
“The next time someone asks for your opinion, and you know itâ€™s contrary to that personâ€™s viewpoint, take the risk of putting your perspective on the table rather than taking the path of least resistance by agreeing or saying you have no opinion.”
“There is nothing in the world stronger than gentleness.”
“I don't trust the ocean, either; it would kill me as soon as not. It doesn't mean I'm afraid of it.”
“Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse?”

Source : "The planet is now so vandalised that only total energy renewal can save us" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2008.

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