I. M. Pei Quotes

Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.

I. M. Pei

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HistoryDeepSomethingModernity

If I wanted to make a lot of money with 'Hedwig,' I could have spent all my time on it. But that's boring.

John Cameron Mitchell

TimeMoneyBoringMakeMy TimeLot

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

John Berger

NatureEvilTalkingNothingHuman

Westerns were all daddy liked to watch. Give me some Clint Eastwood, some Charles Bronson, and I was a happy girl. It was our father-daughter bonding.

Melissa Marr

GirlHappyMeWatchGive MeGive

There's a lot to learn from President Clinton. It kills me as a strong Republican saying it, but he was the most effective president during my lifetime. And when business got out of line, he smacked them.

John T. Chambers

BusinessMeSayingStrongLearnOut

Politics gets me out of bed in the morning It's what really interests me. I'm a competitor, but I also feel like I'm contributing, whether it's working on health-care policy in the White House or out here in Chicago.

Stephanie Cutter

MorningPoliticsMeFeelHouseBed

We have had virtually unlimited access to abortion for nearly twenty years. Yet during that same period, more and more women and children have slipped into poverty.

Robert Casey

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The gym is one of the few places where I can just be myself without any hindrances and inhibitions.

Ronnie Coleman

MyselfGymI CanPlacesWithoutFew

Writer's block is a fiction.

Rumaan Alam

FictionWriterBlock

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

Dogen

LoveFlowerGardeningWeedEven

No matter where you are or what you're doing, it's always great if you don't have to get up and physically change the song that plays next.

Dr. Dre

ChangeGreatSongDoingYouMatter

One of the things I like and appreciate a lot is when somebody will come up to me and tell me how much Judge Doom terrified them as little children when he takes the shoe and puts it in the dip. They were literally scared out of their minds. I love that.

Christopher Lloyd

LoveChildrenMeAppreciateJudge

I expect that in 40 years' time I'll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam.

Toby Young

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