I. M. Pei Quotes
A city, far from being a cluster of buildings, is actually a sequence of spaces enclosed and defined by buildings.I. M. Pei
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A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.
Bas Rutten -
There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
Ovid -
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel Johnson -
Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
Callie Thorne -
Many of the wars we see around the world start as domestic conflicts that are fueled by external forces and powers. My view is that we can help peace if we help communities transform from the inside, on their own terms.
Forest Whitaker -
How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
Ted Danson
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If your aim is to attack the United States, it is hard to imagine a more difficult way of getting here than by posing as a refugee.
Samantha Power -
'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
Ilan Stavans -
I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.
Taylor Swift -
Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
Dan Buettner -
Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
Baltasar Gracian -
The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things.
Maelle Gavet
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When there's no push back against Islamophobic rhetoric, people see that as tacit endorsement of anti-Islamic rhetoric.
Ibrahim Hooper -
I'm from there. You know, when you grow up with these people and see them every day and then you look at the numbers it was easy; it was a no-brainer. And when Sony took a look, it was a no-brainer to them, too.
Magic Johnson -
And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
Barbara Mandrell -
Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
Jack Adams -
I want to have an impact on my son.
Orlando Bloom -
Home is where your rump rests.
Rachel Brosnahan
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The old joke about the two main Soviet papers, Pravda ('Truth') and Izvestia ('News'), was 'There’s no news in the Truth and no truth in the News!'
Garry Kasparov -
So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent, but actively cooperate. They have, in all these matters, the same authority as the clergy.
Charles Hodge -
By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation: those of the politician, the salesman or the charlatan... In other words, it forfeits its own evolutionary potential.
Joseph Brodsky -
Today, nearly 40 percent of a senior's healthcare spending is on pharmaceutical medications.
Dennis Hastert -
A lot of [George Saunders] early stories now feel prophetic. Take the recent election [of Donald Trump]. Historians in 100 years might write about it as being the first internet election, in which what happened was actually an expression in the real world of a virtual reality. And you've been writing about that subject for a while.
Zadie Smith -
A city, far from being a cluster of buildings, is actually a sequence of spaces enclosed and defined by buildings.
I. M. Pei