Peter Eisenman Quotes

I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.

Peter Eisenman

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My feeling about my own work is, I could be writing 'The Aeneid' and they would still have to call it chick lit or mommy lit or menopausal old hag lit.

Jennifer Weiner

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Unfortunately, I think it's very difficult to separate policy from politics. In a perfect world, in some instances, you probably would want to. In other instances, you'd probably say that the political element is important because it should, in a perfect world, match what the stakeholders need or want, or what the public is after.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

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Facebook is teachable. If you hide items, you'll see fewer of those kinds of items in the future. Like more items, and you'll see more of those in the future.

Robert Scoble

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I'm told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring.

Roger Ebert

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But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.

Ritchie Blackmore

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I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes out when you get me on camera.

Martin Scorsese

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'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' was a movie that I repeatedly turned down. The movie's producer, Albert 'Cubby' Broccoli, known for his tight-fisted control of the James Bond movie franchise, desperately wanted to re-team Julie Andrews and me after the success we'd enjoyed with 'Mary Poppins.'

Dick Van Dyke

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I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderful script.

Dougray Scott

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My mother could do absolutely anything. She was like Martha Stewart before such a thing existed.

Cheryl Ladd

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You're too busy writing the next book to worry about Googling yourself all the time.

Annette Curtis Klause

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A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.

Antonin Scalia

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I want to stay involved in sports in one way or another.

Ashley Wagner

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