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Humans are very imaginative animals.
Susumu Tonegawa
Animals
Very
Humans
Imaginative
Independent of what is happening around you in the outside world, humans constantly have internal activity in the brain.
Susumu Tonegawa
You
World
Independent
Constantly
Outside
Outside World
Around
Brain
Happening
Internal
Activity
Humans
Our study showed that the false memory and the genuine memory are based on very similar, almost identical, brain mechanisms. It is difficult for the false memory bearer to distinguish between them.
Susumu Tonegawa
Memory
Difficult
Our
Distinguish
Similar
Almost
Study
Between
Identical
Genuine
Brain
False
Very
Them
Mechanisms
Based
There are lots of actors who insist on speaking the lines themselves, and you hear the same thing from directors and the audience, but I don't think it's worth getting het up about. I think it makes more sense to use someone who speaks that country's language: that's what voice actors are for.
Tadanobu Asano
You
Worth
Language
Insist
Country
Same Thing
Sense
Think
About
Someone
More
Voice
Directors
Makes
Audience
Hear
Lines
Lots
Up
Same
Getting
Themselves
Use
Speaking
Speaks
Who
Actor
Thing
If you're famous, you're not free.
Tadanobu Asano
You
Free
Famous
If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
Tadao Ando
You
People
Nothingness
Give
Achieved
Ponder
I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
Tadao Ando
Future
People
Architecture
Inspire
Own
Resources
Would
Like
Move
Use
The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.
Tadao Ando
You
Technology
Creativity
Worlds
Those
Kind
Able
Computer
Between
Another
Offers
Move
Different
Cannot
Ignore
Different Worlds
Bring
Two
Need
The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.
Tadao Ando
You
Change
Architecture
Will
Become
Speed
Makes
Wonder
When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space.
Tadao Ando
Together
Experience
People
Space
Will
Building
Design
Think
Approach
Top
Would
Composition
About
Overall
Parts
Buildings
How
Fit
Much
Body
Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.
Tadao Ando
Today
Great
History
Architecture
Design
Think
Books
Philosophy
Those
See
Until
Read
Buildings
Italy
Historical
Greece
Where
Holds
Stand
Full
Europe
People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
Tadao Ando
People
Word
Beauty
Tend
Between
Because
Overlap
Intellect
Intellectual
Use
Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.
Tadao Ando
Spiritual
Culture
Architecture
Space
Lost
Saw
Mixture
Western
Modern
Convenience
Gaining
Japanese
Create
Need
Working in Tokyo has convinced me that, contrary to what people think, it is actually one of the world's most beautiful cities.
Tadao Ando
Beautiful
Me
People
World
Most Beautiful
Think
Cities
Most
Contrary
Convinced
Working
Tokyo
Actually
You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.
Tadao Ando
Beautiful
You
Will
Beauty
Say
Vividly
About
Remain
Place
Really
Image
Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.
Tadao Ando
Architecture
Structures
Wooden
Japanese
Regular
Regular Basis
Based
Basis
Need
If there is only one culture all over the world, that's not a good thing.
Tadao Ando
Good
Culture
World
Only
Good Thing
Over
Thing
But in Japan, there's nothing like that, since the temple is made of wood. The divine spirit inside the building is eternal, so the enclosure doesn't have to be.
Tadao Ando
Made
Building
Nothing
Inside
Temple
Spirit
Divine
Since
Like
Wood
Eternal
Japan
I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.
Tadao Ando
Hope
Courage
World
Leader
Before
Gone
Others
Spirit
Lead
Also
Go
Cultural
America
Frontier
Where
Places
Use
Show
Need
I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.
Tadao Ando
Music
Me
Other
Sectors
Like
Around
Understand
Am
Going
Artistic
Happening
Literature
Interested
Things
Need
In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
Tadao Ando
Culture
Old
Preserving
Buildings
Than
Japan
Less
Europe
Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.
Tadao Ando
You
Filthy
City
London
Paris
Both
Look
Proud
Get
After
Tokyo
Residents
If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.
Tadao Ando
Future
People
Space
Before
Kind
Dream
Some
Seek
Stays
Structure
Gives
Experienced
Them
Create
As I get older, I find that wearing bright colors cheers me up.
Tadashi Shoji
Me
Older
Find
Wearing
Colors
Cheers
Up
Get
Bright
There's almost a T-shirt feeling to wearing my evening dresses.
Tadashi Shoji
Feeling
Wearing
Dresses
Almost
Evening
When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.
Tadashi Shoji
Me
Made
Young
About
Inspired
Read
Go
Want
Which
Novels
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