"You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house."

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Source : Renzo Piano (1999). “The Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1998: Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Prize : Presented to Renzo Piano”

Renzo Piano

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“Drew is a player that comes along once every 20 years. Not even Barry Bonds can be compared to J.D. Drew.”
“When I got this saxophone, it became a religion. There wasn't TV, there wasn't much money, and there was just a real dedication.... I never thought of it as an art. It was just work that I loved. Not just work, but work that I loved. I loved it so much, I would play it if nobody listened to it. Any jazz musician, if there's nobody around to listen, would play just for the sheer joy of improvising music.”
“When you write a play, you make a set of assumptions -- that you have something to say, that you know how to say it, that its worth saying, and that maybe someone will come along for the ride.”
“I had absolutely no idea how I had ballooned during my pregnancy. All I thought about was eating plenty of food to keep my baby healthy.”
“My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, but I always thought about things a little bit differently.”
“I remember looking at the sky and thinking that the universe is so big and it's all chaos. I call it 'the dark fear.' At any moment, the dark fear could come in.”
“We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things.”
“Life is like animal porn, it's not for everyone.”

Source : "Something to Take the Edge Off". Comedy album by Doug Stanhope, August 4, 2000.

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