I. M. Pei Quotes
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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I hate the domestic life.
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More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.
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Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
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In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.
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Afghanistan is a country in need. Afghanistan needs to protect itself in the region; Afghanistan needs to secure itself within the country. Afghanistan needs to develop its forces, and Afghanistan needs to provide stability to the people.
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I hate negative ads in general.
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There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
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The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.
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I like to write in coffee shops in countries in which languages I do not speak are spoken. That way, you're surrounded by the buzz of humanity, but you aren't distracted by people's conversations.
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My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.
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Rules of grammar can not give us a mastery of language, rules of rhetoric can not make us eloquent, rules of conduct can not make us good.
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We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
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Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
