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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You never really know baseball until you put on a pair of cleats and get out and play it; and if you play for five years, you still don't really know what it's about.
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Everyone in the astronaut program has a degree in a science field. The crew are the ones who do the experiments, help to design some of the experiments that come from other primary researchers. So it becomes very important that you have a science background.
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The bottom line for mathematicians is that the architecture has to be right. In all the mathematics that I did, the essential point was to find the right architecture. It's like building a bridge. Once the main lines of the structure are right, then the details miraculously fit. The problem is the overall design.
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Sometimes the devil tempts me to believe in God.
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'What's the Use' is normally done with all the women onstage with Julie. Sometimes it's staged as a 'lay at my feet, dear children, and let me tell you the ways of life.' We felt like that wasn't really what was going on.
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I don't design houses with the nuclear family idea because I don't believe in it as a concept.
