Peter Eisenman Quotes
My father went to Rutgers, and I grew up in New Jersey, so I'm a great Rutgers fan. I have season tickets.
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So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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My dresses are for women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on yesterday was the one Jennifer wore. And who'd have thought I'd be the same size as Jennifer Lopez!
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don't understand why it's the government's responsibility.
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I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.
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At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.
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Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
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So if I'm 36, and I have my 19-year-old self, I'm pulling him to the side and saying, 'Listen bruh, throwing on your Timbs and your fitted hat and strolling campus trying to get a girl to say yes, or going to the club hoping you bring a girl home, that's not the way to go about healthy relationships. You need to step back.'
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In the morning, I always use a cube of ice on my face – it gives me a natural lift.
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I think you can overthink dealing with fame. To an extent, you've got to put yourself out there, but I feel like your work should really speak for itself, and I don't feel the need to go and make everyone like me because, to be honest, I'm not looking to be friends with the world. I'd much rather people watch the things that I'm in.
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In terms of 'Solaris,' I didn't really think about the religious aspect an awful lot. There's one scene at a dinner party, and it's discussed, but it wasn't an overwhelming theme for me.
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My dad and my mom were big Nat King Cole fans, so they had everything he did.
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I want my kids to have a good work ethic. I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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I watched a couple of really bad directors work, and I saw how they completely botched it up and missed the visual opportunities of the scene when we had put things in front of them as opportunities. Set pieces, props and so on.
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My father was a painter, so I was encouraged to take a sketchbook everywhere. Cameras are perishable, but I still have tonnes of sketchbooks from all the trips I've ever been on. It gets you by when you don't know what to give people as a gift; drawings are good souvenirs.
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You really have to be ambitious and have that drive to really become well known and successful as a standup.
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I honestly don't diet or work out regularly. I'm just always running around - you'll never catch me having a day on the sofa.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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My father went to Rutgers, and I grew up in New Jersey, so I'm a great Rutgers fan. I have season tickets.
