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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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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I do a lot of speaking about energy and environment. But that's more a second job than a hobby. Hobby-wise, I love the outdoors - hiking, biking, kayaking, swimming, scuba diving. Because I spend almost all of my life in front of a screen, time in nature is especially important, I think.
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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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There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
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I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
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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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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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It's nice to just be a kid and hang out with your friends at lunch.
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There are signs of froth in some local markets where home prices seem to have risen to unsustainable levels.
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In a way it kind of humanizes the sport to see that people can be at the very top of the sport and have hard times.
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When you are in the public eye, you have to protect yourself. There are so many people judging you. I just try to be myself.
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I hope you know that this has nothing to do with you.
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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.
