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 get so tickled when that pilot happens to be an African American because I rarely see that. The same is true when I go to find restaurants. I mean, most places I go, I kind of have some idea who the chef is, which is why I want to go.
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Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like that, big eyes, tiny nose, we go 'aaah'. That's what evolution does. We are programmed to do that. So to find babies the most amazing, isn't surprising, I don't think.
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In the Internet age, with the screaming on the radio, etc., it is hard to know what to believe and who is informed and who is not.
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After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book.
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My grandfather had a proper bookcase of egghead books, and he gave them to me in alphabetical order. So we moved from Aeschylus to the Brontas, and I can still remember the great relief of going from the dipus cycle to Jane Eyre.
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I don't design houses with the nuclear family idea because I don't believe in it as a concept.
