Peter Zumthor Quotes
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I got no hate in me.
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I wanted to get some nose job, because I don't like how my nose tip looks. My hand is also not as pretty, especially my thumb nails. Many people told me that I have ugly hands.
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I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.
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I hate competition.
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The United Nations Children's Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters.
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I don't have any outside view of myself, and if I did, I would probably be creatively inhibited. I just write in the way that I write.
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As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but before that, I was obsessed with space, and I was really excited about, you know, being an astronaut and designing rockets, which was something that was always exciting to me.
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You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.
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I so believe that older women have tremendous value to their families, their community, their country, the world.
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My friends in college, several of whom are still my closest companions, would tell you that I was almost obsessed with becoming - fixated on creating - the future that I envisioned for myself: one of expanding to know my fullest self, which I have in no way achieved.
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It is common, and encouraged by many journals, for research to be judged by the impact factor of the journal that publishes it. But as a journal's score is an average, it says little about the quality of any individual piece of research.
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I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.
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I hate to wait. When I want something, I want it now.
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Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.
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I like physical comedy. And I like the old comedies.
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I get a lot of people that say, 'You know what, I heard that you're a painter, and I thought, 'Oh, another model who is saying she's an artist.' They assumed it was going to be a few splashes on a canvas.
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I remember going to church about four times a week. I liked it a lot.
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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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I have played football all my life, and my dad went to see Manchester United in 2005. Since then, I have been a fan.
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Grandmother Hannah comes to me at Pesach and when I am lighting the sabbath candles. The sweet wine in the cup has her breath.... a little winter no spring can melt.
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He had a so-so game. He played adequately.... Everybody's a work in progress right now.
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Investors believe in the best possible outcome.
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I keep mementos from everything I've done. I've got my cab driver's license from 'Happiness.' I've got a pair of glasses and a belt buckle from playing John Lennon. I've got a pair of sunglasses from playing Andy Warhol... It's all in a box in the garage.
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I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas.