Peter Eisenman Quotes
I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?'
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.
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During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty. While studies show that sending aid to foreign governments creates allegiance, it does not lead to economic progress.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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When you're never home and traveling, you don't play videogames.
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My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.
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I was thinking on the rollers today that, before a race, if I could just pick my brain up and put it on the side of the track for four minutes, it would be perfect.
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I am much more interested in the process than results.
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I don't like being stagnant. I want to continue to grow and just be better at what I do, and the only way to do that is to keep stepping outside of your comfort zone.
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I was born on TV, meaning that's where I caught my break. So that's where I always have to be smart and revisit that medium as much as I can.
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I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.
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I think - you know, the big trauma in my life, personally, was the fact that at 14, I was taken out of Poland unwittingly because my parents were divorced. Left the country - my mother left for England with her new husband. I wasn't even aware that she'd married him.
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I think there's a notion in our society, and it may be valid, that people aren't as funny when they get older. It's a stigma still attached to the rebelliousness of youth.
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I think that when NASA works on a moon shot, they know too well that all of the people working on it must do their job at 110 percent. Sometimes they probably put in 18 hour days, but they're aiming for the moon, and that's what counts.
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I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?'
