I. M. Pei Quotes
I haven't taken any new projects in the past years - I told myself, if I cannot live long enough to finish it, I don't want it.
Quotes to Explore
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During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
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The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
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It gets boring to me when people talk about clothing brands or what boat they're going to buy next summer.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was. Which isn't to say things haven't happened to me that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.
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I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.
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To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.
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It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.
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The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I'm planning to test my own boundaries.
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Mark Zuckerberg did his own software for Facebook, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin made their own for Google.
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You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?
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Doors open because you're beautiful, but I wouldn't cultivate beauty to the exclusion of brains.
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Anything that makes us take more seriously scientists - or economists or chemists or physicists or biologists - I think is helpful in times when things get distorted because of people not paying attention to all the facts.
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I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema.
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I don't really base any of my characters on specific people that I know, although my characters are informed by the kind of people who live in my community.
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From a technical viewpoint, I have certain things I'd like to present in my solos. To do this, I have to get the right material. It has to swing, and it has to be varied.
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I haven't taken any new projects in the past years - I told myself, if I cannot live long enough to finish it, I don't want it.
