If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.
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Michael Bassey Johnson
It’s strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what’s real and what’s imaginary.
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Jason Mraz
You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.
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Shaun Hick
Who you are in public is a test of your conviction; who you are in private, integrity.
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Criss Jami
God tests, but he does not tempt.
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Criss Jami
More Quotes By Thom Mayne
So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position.
But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.
Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way.
Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.
I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act - that is its primary role.
