Peter Eisenman Quotes
If you were a son of mine, I wouldn't want you to be an architect, because it's a tough way to be in the world.
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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
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I can do whatever I want.
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I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.
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It is true that in France, women put on less things. If they have a necklace, they don't put on earrings; if they have nail polish, they don't put on all their rings and all their bracelets.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.
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Whoever Boost works with, Sprint will work with. And whoever Sprint works with, Verizon and AT&T will as well.
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Sometimes I feel like I'm a contestant in a reality show that probably would be called The Apprentice Survivor Millionaire.
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Victi vicimus
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I did stand-up for my grandparents every day when I was, like, eight.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.'
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If you were a son of mine, I wouldn't want you to be an architect, because it's a tough way to be in the world.
