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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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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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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I had the ability, but I didn't have the name. They could have built me, which is what they did with Deborah Kerr, but I don't think I was quite hot enough in the looks department, quite frankly. I was all talent and no looks.
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Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.
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I feel like something I've wanted to do for a really long time, in a feature film or anything, is playing a rocker. Somewhere where I can be on a stage and have a guitar or a microphone and just kind of jam out.
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Throwing water balloons wakes you up!
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Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist; since what happened in them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.
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I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.
