I. M. Pei Quotes
One thing I learn - I've been in practice now for half a century or more, and the most important ingredient for an architect to do a good building is to have a good client. I think a client counts for as much as fifty per cent.
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I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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If you will be the best that you can be right where you are, God will promote you and give you more.
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Twenty-six years ago, I became the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. I was the first, but I made sure I wasn't the only.
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In 1775, no fewer than nine colonies had established churches, ranging from Congregational establishments in New Hampshire, Connecticut and Massachusetts to Episcopal churches in the southern states from Maryland on down.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.
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Corporate stand-up allowed me to make my own schedule and make money as if I was in show business.
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We are a typical working class northern family, big into our football... no one in the family was into acting. But I remember seeing a panto when I was about six and thinking, 'Yeah... I wouldn't mind doing that.'
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When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it's like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically.
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.
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The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure.
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A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.
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I love life. I love life to death.
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I find when I'm touring or when I'm traveling, I just enter this other world kind of. It's much easier for me to be creative and be unselfconscious about creating when I'm home.
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I find it interesting that 16-year-olds are having plastic surgery. People in their 40s used to think, 'I'm aging, I have to do something about it.' Now children are deciding they don't like the way they look.
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Our oceans have been the victims of a giant Ponzi scheme, waged with Bernie Madoff-like callousness by the world's fisheries.
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One thing I learn - I've been in practice now for half a century or more, and the most important ingredient for an architect to do a good building is to have a good client. I think a client counts for as much as fifty per cent.
