I've played different nationalities, and everything from vulnerable to strong to crooked to demented. It just increases your possibilities of work because, if people know you can do just about anything, then you're going to get more offers. That's what I want to do.

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I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future. - Tadao Ando

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There is beauty everywhere; even in the dark, there is light, and that is the rarest kind of all. ― Catherine Doyle

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Most people aren't anywhere near to realizing their creative potential, in part because they're laboring in environments that impede intrinsic motivation. — Teresa Amabile

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Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people.

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If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.

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The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another.

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There are people who have money and people who are rich. ― Coco Chanel

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People say that life is short, but it isn't short. It's very long. _ Frank Abagnale

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One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.- Frank Zappa

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