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I. M. Pei Quotes

The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: architect
Nationality: american
Birth: April 26, 1917

Topics

Practice Building My Own First Own

I always knew I would come to London. I loved Glasgow, but it seemed filled with echoes of my parents' lives, and sometimes you just want a city of your own.

Parents City Loved You Sometimes

Free speech is one of the founding principles of our republic.

Andrew Rosenthal

Free Speech Principles Free Speech

I think the whole reason I act is because it's much more fun to be somebody else. I'm pretty boring.

Melissa McCarthy

Fun Think Boring More Reason Pretty

If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them.

Life Future Quality World Better

Science fiction's power, if it has any, is that it gives us reasonable extrapolations, not wild and woolly stuff.

Robert J. Sawyer

Power Science Wild Fiction Us Stuff

I spend a lot of time practicing active imagination before I go to sleep. What I'm feeling will manifest as images through active imagination. And then I go to sleep, and those play out even more in my dreams.

Dreams Time Imagination Sleep Play

Always my collections are made of different influences.

Jean Paul Gaultier

Always Influences Different Made

American oil companies - including Amoco, Unocal, Exxon, Pennzoil - have invested billions of dollars in Azerbaijan and plan to invest billions more. As a result, they have developed a strongly pro-Azerbaijan position.

American Plan Result Oil More

Down where I grew up, able-bodied people do that which we believe God created them to do. Work is a blessing; it's not a curse.

Steve Southerland

Work God Blessing People Believe Up

I train a lot of celebrities, including a lot of women who work for Victoria's Secret as Angels.

Mary Helen Bowers

Work Women Train Angels Secret Who

The law condemns the best of us; but grace saves the worst of us.

Best Grace Law Worst Us Saves

I'm always going to be around the game of basketball. I plan to keep my options open as a player moving forward, but that's not coaching. Maybe front office work, working with teams and spreading the game, maybe teaching the game to young people, that's something that's a very big passion.

Work Passion Moving Forward People

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