Peter Eisenman Quotes
I use the NordicTrack every other day for 20 minutes. I don't listen to music or watch TV while I do it. I count to myself. I count to 25; I count to 25 backwards, that sort of thing.
Quotes to Explore
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
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A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
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When I eat something like vegetable bibimbap, I get that warm and fuzzy feeling of eating stuff that I grew up with.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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I don't get tired of my work because you can't get tired of something you love and enjoy! But, having said that, I wish to get a break of four to five days, or at least three days, switch off my cell phone, and do what I want to.
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To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.
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My dad has a huge vinyl collection downstairs, but I was never too interested. The only CD I had was by Adam Sandler.
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The beautiful uncut hair of graves.
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The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.
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I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know the point of view from which these tales are told: the moral makeup of the teller.
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Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a band that didn't have any future.
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The difference between the headphones and making music, it's like, okay, I have a new business here that I'm proud of, but my soul still remains in the music-making process.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.
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I use the NordicTrack every other day for 20 minutes. I don't listen to music or watch TV while I do it. I count to myself. I count to 25; I count to 25 backwards, that sort of thing.
