I. M. Pei Quotes
I've been active all my life. In 1990 I retired from my firm, I.M. Pei & Partners, and for two years I didn't do much. Then I started to get kind of antsy, so I decided, I'm going to do some more work. And I chose to do work outside the U.S. because I've spent 45 years here and I wanted to learn more about what's happening in the rest of the world.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I do make a good ragu pasta, which everyone seems to like. Or that could be just me talking; who knows what they really think. I actually stole the recipe from my older sister Vera, who also loves to cook. I took all my recipes from her.
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It's such an overused phrase: 'to be part of the conversation.' But it's true. It is nice to be part of the conversation - just be sure they are talking about you in the right way.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.
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Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!
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I am interested in shows that are not out-and-out gag fests: you see the truth of a broken heart behind them. That is what life is like: it's really funny, you see funny things as soon as you step out of the room, but underneath that is a whole bag of broken hearts. It's that real pain and that real hilarity that makes life so intriguing.
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I went from a player who was never fit to a person who actually worked hard to get myself in shape.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.
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The polls and the pundits and the media seem to talk to each other. It's sort of like an echo chamber.
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Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
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Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.
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I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.
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I always thought when I hit 50 years old that'd be it for the travel. I don't have to tell you - you wait at an airport, your flight's delayed, get on a 14-hour flight, get off, get stuck in traffic, you get to the hotel and the room service is closed.
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One of the most beautiful things that recruited me to join the LaRouche movement is its emphasis on Classical singing and composition, especially with the Negro Spirituals, adding a new depth of profundity to songs I had sang while growing up.
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That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ideas, and at the same time it's a little hard because seventy percent of the time or even higher I'm not going to get those roles.
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Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth.
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I've been active all my life. In 1990 I retired from my firm, I.M. Pei & Partners, and for two years I didn't do much. Then I started to get kind of antsy, so I decided, I'm going to do some more work. And I chose to do work outside the U.S. because I've spent 45 years here and I wanted to learn more about what's happening in the rest of the world.
