Me Quotes

I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background.

~ Antoine Predock

To me, the fashion and architecture I like are very closely linked. Both should be clean and simple and without embellishment.

~ Leon Max

I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture.

~ Hussein Chalayan

I had it drummed into me from an early age that personalizing everything was not a good thing. Besides, I don't think that kind of commodity-driven system makes for the most productive architecture.

~ James Polshek

I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way.

~ James Polshek

As a child, my father's architecture seemed to me to be industrial in a way. It seemed harsh and kind of chilly; I didn't respond to it.

~ Nathaniel Kahn

I am no bird and no net ensnares me I am a free human being with an independent will.

~ Charlotte Brontë

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.

~ Walt Disney

I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

~ Jackie Robinson

I'm lucky because I remember my dad showing me 'Independence Day,' and I loved it.

~ Maika Monroe

You break your neck, you don't know what's going to happen. I mean, it's foreign. You're in this body that you thought you were - that you were accustomed to, and now you're not. You have to figure out everything. I think the biggest thing for me was getting a license, because it gives you - it gives you your independence back.

~ Mark Zupan

Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.

~ Natalie Massenet

I don't have luxurious tastes or great needs, but my independence is worth a lot to me.

~ Emmanuel Macron

I don't feel we need to be independent for me to feel confident in my Scottish identity. I think Scotland is pretty comfortable in its identity. We won't need independence to preserve it... if we don't become independent, it won't disappear; it isn't under existential threat.

~ Nicola Sturgeon

The same independence that got me into trouble in high school got me praise in college.

~ Alan Dershowitz

For me, I always have looked at 'indie' as a term of 'independence.' Never associated a sonic gesture with that in the same way that pop music has always meant 'popular' to me; you know, it didn't define a sound.

~ Solange Knowles

Energy independence is very important to me.

~ Tomi Lahren

Going back to South Sudan after the independence took place was deeply emotional for me because I had gone through the civil war with my family just before going to seek refuge in London.

~ Alek Wek

The way I was grew up gave me a slight fearlessness and a sense of independence. There are things about it that have definitely informed me. And then, as a parent, it's done the opposite. It's made me feel much more protective. There are boundaries in my kids' lives that I don't think I had.

~ Sam Taylor-Johnson

My parents were the ones who gave me the independence, who gave me the spark to do anything that you set your mind to, as all parents should do for their kids.

~ Marlee Matlin

'Chocolat' was a sort of statement of my own childhood, recognizing I experienced something from the end of the colonial era and the beginning of independence as I was a child that really made me aware of things I never forgot - a sort of childhood that made me different when I was a student in France.

~ Claire Denis

If I make a movie in English, the money will come from Europe, so that I can keep my independence and freedom. The way they produce in Hollywood doesn't fit me.

~ Pedro Almodóvar

Our independence from AOL was so important to me that I negotiated an extremely odd provision in our purchase agreement that allowed me to disclose confidential information about AOL. It was their job never to give me that information. It was not my job to protect it in any way.

~ Michael Arrington

Work to me has become kind of a hobby. I was a part of something that gave me financial independence and the rent is paid. Now it's just about projects that turn me on.

~ Matt Leblanc

I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.

~ Zoe Foster Blake

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her cry to me was always: Be independent.

~ Nicolas Chamfort

For me, the biggest thing with money has always been independence - just the biggest.

~ Monica Seles

I feel very warm towards Mum and Dad for giving us the independence they did. My childhood, and the fact we didn't have a TV, gave me a boundless imagination.

~ Dido Armstrong

Many years ago, I was actually hired to write the sequel to 'Independence Day.' And I wrote a sequel. And they paid me a boatload of money to go write this thing. And after I wrote it, I read it and I gave them back the money and I said, 'Look, this is an okay movie I just wrote. But it's not worthy of the sequel to 'Independence Day.'

~ Dean Devlin

As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think the public can feel confident that impartiality and independence are just as important to me as they have been to previous incumbents.

~ Gavyn Davies

The Wellcome Foundation offered me the chance to establish a small academic research unit, modestly funded, but with total independence. The real opportunity, however, came from King's College, London.

~ James W. Black

In July, 1892, fate suddenly granted me financial independence.

~ Carl Spitteler

Everything's coming up roses - for me.

~ Ethel Merman

Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun.

~ Robert Herrick

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

~ Benjamin Franklin

The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.

~ Will Smith

Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn. So the last part to me is the key, especially if you have had some initial success. It becomes even more critical that you have the learning 'bit' always switched on.

~ Satya Nadella

When people ask me about what I learned from martial arts, I don't talk about favorite punches or kicks, or about fights won or lost. I talk about learning self-discipline, about ethics and manners and benevolence and fairness.

~ Jonathan Maberry

I love being challenged and defending my positions and, when I'm wrong, learning from the exchange. It makes me smarter and better as a businessperson.

~ Mark Cuban