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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My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
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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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Everybody is struggling for the good things of the world, and all the arguments to prove that they are not desirable are worse than wasted.
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Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it.
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If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.
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These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.
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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.
