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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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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The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.
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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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In our day, a vast majority of people is dependent either on an employer or the government-or both. One way to rate your level of independence might be to measure how long you can survive, feed your family and live in your home after your employer stops paying you anything.
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How you recover from what life's throwing at you is what matters.
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The band has a liberal philosophy - that's sort of a given.
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I don't think of myself as a legend. I just love what I do. I love playing with my band, I love going to beautiful places and give people good music. I love what I do, I`m very lucky man.
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I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas.
