I. M. Pei Quotes
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The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
E. W. Howe -
You don't run from the bad things in life; learn from them, because your worst is what will lead you to your best.
Randeep Hooda -
The question for France and all countries is, 'Do you favour foreign Internet operators that do not pay, or do you favour national operators who pay?'
Xavier Niel -
Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
Lady Bird Johnson -
When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
Iain Duncan Smith -
I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.
Karen Elson
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I'd been going to the Louvre since 1951. I thought I knew Paris and the French, but I didn't really. You know how easy it is to make friends when you are traveling. People are curious about you, you are curious about them. But you never really make friends that way. After the Louvre, I discovered that I have friends now because I have enemies.
I. M. Pei -
Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
H. L. Mencken -
I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.
Sam Elliott -
Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
Frances McDormand -
There's more student debt than credit card debt! Everywhere I go, I run into young people trying to build careers while they keep shelling out money on their education loans. If the economy is looking for a new generation of home-buyers, I can't imagine they'll get it from these folks.
Gail Collins -
I am very excited to be able to work more with young designers and support them.
Carine Roitfeld
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People often call 'If I Stay' my baby novel, and I have to correct them. It's not my first book. It's just the first one anybody paid attention to.
Gayle Forman -
Although my mother didn't necessarily approve of teenage girls wearing heels, she made an exception for me when I was 14 because she didn't want me to be self-conscious about my height - or to slouch.
L'Wren Scott -
When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.
Laura Schlessinger -
I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.
Bear Grylls -
The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
Zubin Mehta -
I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.
Fiona Apple
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It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control.
Alice Hamilton -
Many people one meets in life somehow think they know you simply because they're hanging out at the same counter-but they really don't know a thing about you.
William Eggleston -
Actually, I've done it the other way so many times where you rehearse the band and you do the whole thing with lights, the show and the crew - everything. Then you see what happens and you're already committed to dates. I'm just sort of putting out feelers this way.
Paul Westerberg The Replacements -
We will have gone from men telling us condescendingly to not bother our pretty little heads about important things like politics, to not bothering our pretty little heads without even being told not to! The suffragettes struggled and suffered so much on our behalf; what a travesty of everything they stood for, if we simply look away as though we can't be bothered.
Marianne Williamson -
You look at women like Lena Dunham, you look at how women are kind of crafting their own space on the screen. I want to add to that.
Danai Gurira -
Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.
I. M. Pei