I. M. Pei Quotes

I arrived in the U.S.A. in 1935, to San Francisco. I got the boat from China, and I didn't even speak English. I could read a little, perhaps write a little, but that was all. It was a 17-day journey, and I learnt to speak English from the stewards.

I. M. Pei

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• I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Believe
  • War
  • Death

• The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Man
  • Gay

• I hadn't watched any Hitchcock movies when I made 'Tom at the Farm,' except for 'Vertigo' when I was 8 years old. I don't have a sophisticated film knowledge, but I have seen the legacy of classic movies in broader entertainment.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Knowledge
  • Movies
  • Legacy

• Take a very small amount of money, your throwaway money, treat it as if it's already gone, you've mentally set it on fire, and put it in some distribution of a few truly legit layer 1 blockchains.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Money
  • Small
  • Fire

• Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Japanese
  • Companies
  • Lacking

• We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • High
  • Energy
  • Cost

• You can't win if you don't play as a unit.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • You
  • Play
  • Win

• On right-to-life, see the Republicans flee from Todd Akin, who committed a gaffe while restating his support for what has been a plank of the Republican platform since 1980.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Life
  • Support
  • Been

• There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Me
  • Nobody
  • Double

• I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • Great
  • Family
  • America

• In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Death
  • Terrorism
  • Sickness

• Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Important
  • Political
  • Team

• Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Time
  • Want
  • Better

• It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Help
  • Desire
  • Always

• It seems to me that Halloween is the perfect time to get all over steampunk.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Halloween

• When I first lived in a model apartment... It was two bunk beds to a room, and the bathroom was constantly in use. I was bringing in Lucky Charms cereal, and one day an agent put a stop to that. She said, 'You're making all the girls fat.' They took it off our grocery order. That was the most dramatic thing that happened.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • She
  • Stop
  • Day

• My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Good
  • Morning
  • Tea

• Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Great
  • God
  • Fear

• I barely speak English.

  

  Eric Ripert
  • English

• In the silence of our hearts, God speaks of His love; with our silence, we allow Jesus to love us.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Heart
  • Jesus
  • Silence

• I just can't fathom tweeting, and I'd rather spend my time writing a book than a blog, but I rather grudgingly agreed to a Facebook page. I had a brief, intense romance with Facebook. It's weirdly addictive, but anything that time-sucking is a danger for a writer who writes as slowly as I do. Now I post only occasionally and nothing very confessional. I think I'm carbon dating myself as I speak.

  

  Debra Dean
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Speak

• I don't want to leave the house, and I don't want to settle down.

  

  John Grant
  • House

• I found a place under a bridge in Goa where you could have fresh crab and beer. It was nothing complicated, but delicious.

  

  Gemma Chan
  • Bridge
  • Beer

• I arrived in the U.S.A. in 1935, to San Francisco. I got the boat from China, and I didn't even speak English. I could read a little, perhaps write a little, but that was all. It was a 17-day journey, and I learnt to speak English from the stewards.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • English
  • Journey
  • Speak