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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My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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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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Our culture already has a number of well known stories about artificial life and non-human intelligence. In 'Exegesis,' I've tried to not only tell a new and engaging story but also to comment on those well known stories through the details of my novel.
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I used to say that you'll have 10 IP address on your body... and it looks like that's going to happen through medical monitoring.
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I'm not a big fan of just doing weights. Anything more physical is infinitely better.
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Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
