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Peter Marino Quotes

American - Architect | 1949 -

Architects have big egos. We like to think we're creating the pyramids and they're going to be around for thousands of years. And it's a joke because they're not even going to last our lifetime. I built a home for umpteen gazillion dollars on a gorgeous piece of property in Palm Beach, and 11 years later somebody else bought it and knocked it down.

Home Beach Think Down Creating Palm

In 1991, if someone came in with a $1 million budget for a boutique, I would have fainted. Nobody spent even half that. But now, the bar has risen very high.

Budget Someone Nobody Now Bar High

My parents spent a lot of money so I wouldn't sound like I came from Queens. I went to speech class.

Money Parents Speech Class Sound

My name is on the door, and I care very much about the design that gets put out. I'm sorry, but it has to be my way. You learn that by working for people like I. M. Pei. You think he isn't a design tyrant? Is Calvin Klein a tyrant? When it came to his dresses, he had to be.

People Door Sorry Think Name Learn

People in Shanghai make a lot more money than the farmers in the rice paddies. The rice-paddy farmers are not buying Louis Vuitton bags, but the upwardly mobile ones in Shanghai, who are all working in Wall Street-type firms, are infinitely better-dressed than people in the West. Their women take this fashion thing seriously.

Women Money People Fashion Wall

My father's house was on East 55th Street on 1st and 2nd Avenues. I'm fifth-generation Marino in the East 50s - I live on 57th Street. I can't be more East 50s.

Father Live House Street More East

That was really the Fifties for me - that whole spirit of flicking the paint on the canvas.

Me Spirit Canvas Paint Fifties

I have this 'Alice in Wonderland' idea in my head that a garden should be a place of wonderment.

Garden Place Head Idea Should Alice

The French use gardens to show grandeur and the English to show how things have endured for hundreds of years, but for me, they're all about fantasy.

Me Fantasy Years Things English How

We have a thousand hydrangea plants bordering the house, and they were all supposed to be pink, but a handful of them keep turning purple.

Plants Pink House Purple Keep Them

If something's a high-margin product, I understand its importance to the store.

Product Understand Something Store

I believe that women would crawl across broken glass to get a cool pair of shoes.

Women Shoes Broken Cool Believe Get

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