I. M. Pei Quotes

I liked the America of Bing Crosby, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton - it was all a dream, of course, but a very alluring dream for a young man from Canton.

I. M. Pei

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ManAmericaDreamYoungYoung Man

With Frat House, at times I needed to make music that would reflect what these fraternity brothers might actually listen to, but still keep it within the realm of a score; it still had to lead the viewer through the scene, or just help create the mood.

Jim Coleman

MusicHelpHouseCreateMoodListen

If I ever play Hamlet, it'll be in a dress!

Matt Lucas

DressPlayEverHamlet

Babies make you do things for them. They get you up and they get you moving.

Ann Hood

MovingYouUpThingsGetBabies

I felt that a lot of Viking culture had been caricatured and misconstrued. After all, they were far more democratic than the Saxons and the Francs, who were exercising really hierarchical social structures at that time. The Vikings had popular meetings where everything could be discussed.

Michael Hirst

TimeCultureMeetingsMoreSocial

Now that I'm in the position I'm in now, I like to take all my creative ideas and put 'em on the Internet for my fans to interact with. Give 'em something to do.

Soulja Boy

CreativeIdeasInternetNowFans

When you start playing as young as me, and you've been in front of audiences your entire life, this is literally what I grew up doing.

Trombone Shorty

LifeMeStartDoingYouYoung

As Asian-Americans, we just don't often get the chance to tell the story from a leading person's perspective. And so I took jobs where they came, and they were always in the ensemble, and if it required me to play multiple instruments I did that, and if it was as a puppeteer, I did that. That's just how I was cast; that's how I was employed.

Ruthie Ann Miles

PerspectiveMeChanceStoryPlay

I want to be so strong as an actor that people wouldn't say... eh, that's Josh Lucas.

Josh Lucas

PeopleStrongSayWantActorEh

I took a course on 'Magic, Alchemy, and Astrology' at Mount Holyoke, and it was a whole new awakening for me, a way of thinking about the world primarily in terms of concepts and words rather than mathematical formulas.

Deborah Harkness

WordsMeWorldThinkingMagicNew

I've never been a social person.

Annie Lennox

PersonNeverSocialBeen

So many people feel that once you reach a certain age then it's time for you to retire from a sport you love. I don't think that's true at all. I think age should not dictate that.

Alonzo Mourning

LoveAgeTimePeopleThinkReach

No Gabonese must be left by the side of the road.

Ali Bongo Ondimba

RoadSideLeftMust

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