Peter Eisenman Quotes
Conservation destroys the present. If we are only busy preserving the past, we are not living in the present and unable to look forward. I am against conservation. We should let young people move forward, whether we agree with them or not. We should let new things happen.
Quotes to Explore
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It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!
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Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.
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I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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I don't feel closeted.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.
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When I was a kid, 'Blade Runner' was my favorite movie. I remember seeing that when I was a little boy with my dad.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
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Describing Woodstock as the 'big bang,' I think that's a great way to describe it, because the important thing about it wasn't how many people were there or that it was a lot of truly wonderful music that got played.
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He writes music that spins itself out indefatigably. There's a wonderful strain of humor there. It's quirky, often bizarre, there's an irreducible strangeness to his style. It's unlike any music I've ever heard.
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There have been many great performers, but only four great stylists-Al Jolson, Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams, and Jerry Lee Lewis.
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I don't look at a problem and put variables in there that don't affect it.
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Conservation destroys the present. If we are only busy preserving the past, we are not living in the present and unable to look forward. I am against conservation. We should let young people move forward, whether we agree with them or not. We should let new things happen.
