Peter Eisenman Quotes
I don't design houses with the nuclear family idea because I don't believe in it as a concept.
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Brain cells are normally not sensitive to light. So by introducing light-sensitive proteins into specific types of neurons, we can now selectively control that specific type of neuron by shining light in the brain.
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I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
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In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
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I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
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It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
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It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
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The polls and the pundits and the media seem to talk to each other. It's sort of like an echo chamber.
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I think the most rewarding part for me is kind of not knowing where the story's going next, and then finding out and being blown away by it.
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To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
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To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
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Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
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We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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My own conviction is, confirmed by a very close study of parochial registers, that some of the very best blood in England is to be found among the tradesmen of our county towns.
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I do most of the cooking in my head.
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In the South, the food is outstanding. Down south, we eat to get full, and the people up north, they don't do that.
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No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.
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We were brought up Protestant, and I went to church three times a day on a Sunday. My parents weren't Bible-bashers, but we all have a strong belief in God and a strong faith. We had a huge garden; our house was a bit like a scene from 'The Good Life.' I think Mam and Dad had it really hard, bringing up a big family on very little.
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No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.
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I don't design houses with the nuclear family idea because I don't believe in it as a concept.
