I. M. Pei Quotes

I cannot work and listen to Wagner at the same time, nor Mahler, nor Beethoven's late quartets. I enjoy listening to Chopin's piano music when I work.

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• When I went to drama school, I knew I was at least as talented as other students, but because I was a black man and I wasn't pretty, I knew I would have to work my butt off to be the best that I would be, and to be noticed.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Work
  • School
  • Pretty

• And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there.

  

  Lance Ito
  • Up
  • Work
  • Mind

• I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • People
  • Work
  • Teach

• When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Time
  • Why
  • Today

• The music is just so rich and part of the culture there. I suddenly felt like I needed to go on this mission to make sure we save New Orleans because - not that I can save anything - but it's so much part of what this country is, this whole mix of people coming together and doing this thing.

  

  Harold Perrineau
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.

  

  Irving Ravetch
  • Up
  • Work
  • Real

• I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• Getting into the residential investment business entails lots of renovation work.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Work
  • Business
  • Investment

• Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Value

• Proactive giving is what you do when you've found your passion. It expresses your values, interests and concerns. It engages not just your dollars, but also your mind, time, skills and networks - the philanthropic equivalent of leaning in, rather than leaning back. Most importantly, proactive giving is something you want to do.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Giving

• The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • People
  • Music
  • Night

• Lanai at one time grew 98% of the world's pineapples. But the world's pineapples are now grown in two places, Costa Rica and Panama, because no one wants to spend $45 for a pineapple from the United States.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Time
  • World
  • Now

• Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

  

  Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • Time
  • Age
  • Interesting

• It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.

  

  Cam
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• What I learned from boxing and what everyone can take in real life is to follow directions, follow order. Don't give nobody a hard time.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Life
  • Time
  • Real

• Looking after a disabled child pushes you to the limits of what you can cope with... physically, emotionally. It's because there's this baby, this child that you love more than you can possibly imagine, in some way more than a normal child because you worry about them 24 hours a day. But at the same time you are so, so proud of them.

  

  Samantha Cameron
  • Time
  • Love
  • Day

• My sister, singer Jessie Ware, and I are always exchanging music. We brainstormed her wedding playlist for months.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • Music
  • Sister
  • Wedding

• I love it when people travel to see one of my works, and I always make time to meet and talk with them.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • People
  • Time
  • Travel

• No thanks," said Digory, "I don't know that I care much about living on and on after everyone I know is dead. I'd rather live an ordinary time and die and go to Heaven.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • Live
  • Die

• Political statements are usually more direct, and it works with the upbeat music as well, for some reason, the directness of your statements.

  

  Serj Tankian System Of A Down
  • Music
  • Direct
  • Statements

• I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Time
  • Thought
  • Intellectual

• I love performing in New York. Just something about the energy that the crowd gives you, you give it back, a lot of interaction.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Energy

• When we learn to read the story of Jesus and see it as the story of the love of God, doing for us what we could not do for ourselves--that insight produces, again and again, a sense of astonished gratitude which is very near the heart of authentic Christian experience.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • God
  • Heart
  • Experience

• I cannot work and listen to Wagner at the same time, nor Mahler, nor Beethoven's late quartets. I enjoy listening to Chopin's piano music when I work.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Time
  • Work
  • Music