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Frank Lloyd Wright Architect
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"The longer I lived, the more beautiful life became - despite my personal tragedies, the fire, despite my third wife and her dreadful taste. My dear Olgivanna, she insisted on replacing the lovely canvas and wooden trusses at Taliesin West with steel supports and pink frosted glass. Well, I was too old to care by then. What I decided early on was this: If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life."

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Rainn Wilson Actor
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"There's like ten minutes when it's like, 'Okay, wait, who is this guy again?' And then, you know, I just put on the calculator watch and the glasses, and just be all, you know, inappropriate. And then it just works out fine."

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Roddy Doyle Author
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"I'm not recognised that much. I'm just a bald man in glasses and there's a rash of them in Dublin. It'd be different if I had a mohican."

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Irwin Shaw Novelist, Playwright
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"I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober."

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J. R. R. Tolkien Novelist, Scholar
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"He is not half through yet, and to what he will come in the end not even Elrond can foretell. Not to evil, I think. He may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can."

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Karl Lagerfeld Fashion Designer, Photographer
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"I had an interview once with some German journalist - some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists - maybe a week after - and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She had huge tits and a huge black bra, and she said to me, "It's impolite; remove your glasses." I said, "Do I ask you to remove your bra?""

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Harry Hill Comedian, Television Presenter
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"It's only when you look at an ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day that you realize how often they burst into flames."

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Brigham Young Religious Leader
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"Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere."

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