We used to get published a lot. And there was this vodka advertisement... it embarrassed me a lot afterwards.

There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and making things durable.

Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood.

I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.

I think and hope there are far more people aware of the need to look after our future.

No one ever contributed anything to my designs.

I'm not against vodka - they just asked us. They put out some story about us entertaining international celebrities with vodka, which of course wasn't true.

Well the most successful of course was this Polypropylene chair.

I think it's really important to use your hands and get close to materials. To be up close to real things like rain and mud; to have contact with nature.

I can't climb very seriously now but I was a bit of a freak.

I've always walked and climbed; spent a lot of time in the arctic and places.

I think there's a tendency for modern man to become dominated by gadgets and machines, taking us further and further away from the things I've been talking about.

But I think it's important that things endure.

I'm pretty much a vegetarian.

Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.

Well, I'd probably go for any work I could get.

I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function.

We used to get published a lot. And there was this vodka advertisement... it embarrassed me a lot afterwards.

You've got to build a career and a practice.

And I'm comfortable being who I am, so I think a lot of people who take over from a founder worry about how they compare to the founder; I worry about doing the best I can.

I like facts and data because they help me think clearly, beyond the cultural messages that I ingest unwittingly, and sometimes find myself regurgitating almost unconsciously.

What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.

When we think about the characteristics of Twitter that make it unique, it is all of public, real-time, conversational, and distributed. We are the only platform that is all of those at scale.

Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.

I've never run into a person who yearns for their middle school days.

When you're famous, you're always famous. It doesn't go away.

Both President Obama and I shared the conviction that territorial and maritime disputes in the Asia Pacific region should be settled peacefully based on international law. We affirm that arbitration is an open, friendly and peaceful approach to seeking a just and durable solution.

He loved constantly, instantly, spontaneously, without thought or words. That's what he taught me. Love is not something you think about, it is a state in which you dwell. That was his gift.

No matter who you are or what you intend to do, you should not exceed the boundaries of the rule of law.

Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.

I decided to an actress because of the film 'La Dolce Vita.'

They are unique in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life that they enclose.

There were definitely dark nights when you're like, 'Maybe joining the military wasn't such a good idea.' But, in a way, it was the best training to be an actor.

It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself.

In Wisconsin, We're at the forefront of research that might one day bring cures for diseases like Parkinsons and Alzheimers, and we must seize its great potential.

There is no difference between saving lives and extending lives, because in both cases we are giving people the chance of more life.

Meccano gives boys the secrets of the world's wonderful engineering structures.

We're the first not-white family to ever live in the governor's mansion. My son-in-law is Puerto Rican. I have a beautiful little granddaughter who is half Korean and half Latina. I'm the only white guy in the house.

When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that.

I helped found Artists for New South Africa, but it used to be called Artists for Free South Africa. Alfre Woodard and a bunch of us started this.

The worst disease in the world is hate. And the cure for hate is love.

From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks.

I don't want my president to be a TV star. You don't have to be on television every minute of every day - you're the president, not a rerun of 'Law & Order'. TV stars are too worried bout being popular and too concerned about being renewed.