Peter Eisenman Quotes
I am very different as a parent to new kids. My work changed from being rooted in the sky to being rooted in the earth.
Quotes to Explore
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There's nothing simple when you're in this 'Good Place.'
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
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I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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It's different for every project. Some parts are quicker than others to get and know; sometimes right up until the last moment you're just praying that something will click. But you can only do a certain amount of work and then at some point you've got to think: 'OK, I'm just going to have to leap now.'
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Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.
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No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
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My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.
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Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels until they land on the thing that's the least objectionable to them. They're not looking for their new favorite TV show because they know that that search will take forever and they'll go to bed unhappy.
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I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.
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My style is boho chic. I love that time period - the patterns, the prints, the people, the music, the vibe.
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I am a believer in the journey and enjoying the journey.
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I can smell bacon sizzling or chicken roasting and appreciate the aroma, but I don't want to eat it.
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It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
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What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism.
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I like the idea that my audience doesn't see what I do as controversial.
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My idol when I was growing up was Michael Jordan the basketball player because of his work ethic rather than his talent and because of what he went through to be as good as he was.
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I am very different as a parent to new kids. My work changed from being rooted in the sky to being rooted in the earth.
