Peter Zumthor Quotes

I can't be bought with money. If someone calls me and asks me to work for them for three or four years, and they'll pay me well to build their vacation home, I ask myself why I should work three or four years on something like that.

Peter Zumthor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: architect
  • Nationality: swiss
  • Birth: April 26, 1943

Topics

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Occasionally, some sitcoms still stereotype women - the old dragon or the dolly bird - but on the whole we've moved away from that.

Jo Brand

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Note the three most important Cabinet positions. Rice said that it was better to find the weapons of mass destruction than to see a mushroom cloud.

Andrew Greeley

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How can you say when you're attracted to something? It's not easy to articulate my tastes.

Jeff Goldblum

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As a writer, you need a strong sense of self-belief. And when it comes to writing, I've always had that.

Ronald Frame

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Advertising is, actually, a simple phenomenon in terms of economics. It is merely a substitute for a personal sales force - an extension, if you will, of the merchant who cries aloud his wares.

Rosser Reeves

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I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.

Mary Calderone

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I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myself, excepting to two friends.

Mary MacLane

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I have a very hard time with confrontation in my own life, and I end up being way too nice.

Missi Pyle

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Before he went to sleep, I told him a little story about a rabbit we saw run around the beach house we rented.

Dick Bruna

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People now feel time accelerating. Lists allow them to feel some sense of accomplishment.

David Viscott

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More than 50 percent of kids who play an instrument go on to college, yet music education programs at the inner city public schools who need them most continue to be hit hard with budget cuts.

Clarence Clemons

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Barack Obama's official nomination as the Democratic Party's standard-bearer was a very poignant moment for millions of Americans. As the first non-white major party nominee, Obama is carrying a big load on his shoulders. He's holding the hopes and dreams of a lot of folks who thought the presidency was only reserved for white men.

Chuck Todd

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