Peter Eisenman Quotes
I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm very self-critical.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.
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Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.
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I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.
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I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
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For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.
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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
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Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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What we should notice is that studies show that fathers' presence in their children's lives has a marked effect on how well their kids do later in life, so why aren't we asking how we can better liberate men from the workplace to be home with their kids more often?
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Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
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Originality is definitely missing from EDM. There are people looking for it and exploring but I feel it's so big now it is just getting milked. House music is losing all its melody as it becomes more about how dirty the drop is and how energetic it is. It loses touch with what music really is.
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I've been lucky to find people who want to work with me, whom I respect and like, but the truth is there aren't that many good projects out there. And we make way, way too many movies. So it's not always going to happen with every project. But I try and wait it out.
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In the history of sport in general, people stick around. Look at Shaun White and Lindsey Vonn just continue on, Olympic cycle after Olympic cycle; that is why they are famous.
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I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.
