I. M. Pei Quotes
I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.
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I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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For decades, NRDC has created and supported policies that will ultimately end our reliance on fossil fuels.
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Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
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I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to read different things.
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.
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The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future.
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As investors, we want to believe we are smart, insightful and uniquely talented - even though we often fail to do the heavy lifting, put in the long hours, and make the uncomfortable but necessary decisions to achieve success.
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I can not stay at the place when a stranger starts talking to me. I will try to cut the speech as quick as possible and move away. I had to break this inhibition before becoming an actor.
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In 'Laurence Anyways,' Nathalie Baye is Laurence's mother, and she is quite an awful mother. Still, she is the only one in the end who truly accepts her daughter.
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Cinema is made to film material: the body. By filming the material, the mechanical, the worker, we arrive at the spiritual.
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Women put guys through tests all the time.
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But, having said that, believe me, as you get older, the parts dry up. They get less and less.
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The day I'm inaugurated, this country looks at itself differently and the world looks at America differently. If you believe that we've got to heal America and we've got to repair our standing in the world, then I think my supporters believe that I am a messenger who can deliver that message around the world in a way that no other candidate can do.
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The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with greater virtuosity by knaves than by honest men (who are apt to disdain it), has a different technique in different countries. For instance, in England we excel in whitewashing: in America they excel in tarring and feathering. We strain our nerves and stretch our consciences to avoid a scandal: Americans do the same to make one.
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I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.
