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Thom Mayne Quotes

New York is this cacophony - a collection of radical differences, an agreement of non sequiturs. The diversity and intensity are startling.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: architect
Nationality: american
Birth: January 19, 1942

Topics

Diversity New York Differences New

I love doing stand-up. It's so self-contained - you go there, you do it, you go home - but with telly, there are too many people involved with it with opinions. You have a product, and everyone wants to change it.

Love Change Home People Doing You

I've met many rich kids over the years. Many are very down to earth and work hard; they come from decent parenting. Others, however, are not.

Work Parenting Work Hard Rich Down

People don't like to talk about victory and defeat anymore.

People Victory Defeat Talk Like

That is the true joy of being a solo artist. I can do whatever I want. I can go wherever I want. I can show up with my guitar and my song, and it can sound a hundred different ways. That's the freedom of being on your own. The flipside is: That's you on the cover. If it sucks, it's your fault.

Freedom Joy Song Guitar You Artist

The first thing that comes out of my mouth is always right.

Mouth First Right Always Out Thing

Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.

Heart Back Selling Country Nobody

Liberals talk about the 'income inequality' and the 'unfairness' and the disparity of the haves and the have-nots in New York City. Who has been running that city for all this time? Who has created the underclass in this country? It's the Democrat Party.

Time New York City Inequality Party

AIDS win be our first priority, but in two years' time we don't know where AIDS research will stand, so we are also thinking of activity on other diseases.

Time Research Win Thinking Stand

There was a time before I felt I was a real writer, when I was a yarn spinner and I just wanted to tell story until it was over. But then there came a time where I was like, 'No, I want to understand something through writing this that I might have not understood before. I want people to come away with something to think about.'

Time People Writing Story Think

I don't like closed systems.

Like Closed Systems

People like Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Marlene Dietrich and Sammy Davis Jr. all walked me down this path of entertainment.

Path People Me Down Entertainment

I don't wear jeans.

Christine Ebersole

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