Peter Eisenman Quotes

I don't know how to use appliances. I mean, I use the coffee maker. But that's it.

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• The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and said: 'Gee, Mr. Mali. You don't possibly have a teacher – God complex, do you?' And that was the first time I'd ever heard of that expression. So, yeah, I'm sure I have a teacher – God complex.

  

  Taylor Mali
  • Time
  • God
  • Person

• I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Work
  • Me
  • Public

• The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Earth
  • Military
  • Down

• You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • House
  • You
  • Leave

• Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Devil
  • Angel

• I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • Life
  • School
  • Kid

• It's not enough to just mildly want what you want. You must wildly want what you want. Nobody ever got their greatest wishes by being wishy-washy. You need to put extreme energy into your power of intention to win what you wanna win.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Power
  • Energy
  • Win

• The reason we have cancer and heart disease is the same reason you can't get rid of the wear and tear on your tires on your car: as soon as you use them, you are wearing them away. You can't make eternal tires, and it's the same with the human body.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Heart
  • Car
  • Cancer

• In Colombia, women are a huge factor for reconciliation. I have seen many strong women advocating for negotiations. I remember when the paramilitary were active, there were women close to the paramilitary asking for negotiations.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Women
  • Remember
  • Strong

• There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Life
  • Passion
  • Musicians

• But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • May
  • Soul
  • Freedom

• It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • World
  • Music
  • Different

• For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Done
  • Water
  • Myself

• People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Nice
  • Appearance

• I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Movie
  • Industry
  • Ups And Downs

• We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • History
  • Failure
  • Most

• To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • Sometimes
  • Mad
  • Communicate

• What do you want me to do, rob a bank?

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Want
  • You
  • Me

• What I find fascinating is the idea that we all have a physical brain, but we also have this mental part, and we have to figure out how they work together.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Work
  • Together
  • Brain

• I don't think there's a quick fix to this. I don't think there's any simple way to deal with this. And I will not support amnesty for anybody, I mean, that would be rewarding bad behavior.

  

  Jim Clyburn
  • Bad
  • Support
  • Simple

• My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• The universe is a vast system of exchange. Every artery of it is in motion, throbbing with reciprocity, from the planet to the rotting leaf. The vapor climbs the sunbeam, and comes back in blessings upon the exhausted herb. The exhalation of the plant is wafted to the ocean. And so goes on the beautiful commerce of nature. And all because of dissimilarity--because no one thing is sufficient in itself, but calls for the assistance of something else, and repays by a contribution in turn.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Universe
  • Ocean
  • Blessings

• I don't know how to use appliances. I mean, I use the coffee maker. But that's it.

  

  Peter Eisenman
  • Coffee