I. M. Pei Quotes

I'd been going to the Louvre since 1951. I thought I knew Paris and the French, but I didn't really. You know how easy it is to make friends when you are traveling. People are curious about you, you are curious about them. But you never really make friends that way. After the Louvre, I discovered that I have friends now because I have enemies.

I. M. Pei

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CuriousPeopleThoughtFriendsYou

So many times I've done a CD, and then the week after I record it, I've got this new tagline that's killer. And it makes the whole bit better. It happens all the time. But that's just the process of comedy.

Joe Rogan

TimeProcessBetterComedyWeekNew

Marriage can provide a bounty of emotional, practical, and financial support. But finding the right mate is no substitute for having friends and other interests.

Stephanie Coontz

MarriageSupportFinancialFriends

I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry.

Story Musgrave

PoetrySpaceYouLookWithinBeing

I never thought about success. I always thought about doing the job at hand. My goal was getting through the show that night.

Steve Martin

SuccessJobNightThoughtDoing

When people tell me that I'm a hothead, I have one response, 'You got a problem with that?'

Steve Schirripa

PeopleMeProblemYouTellGot

People want the Keystone pipeline built all across the country.

Steve Scalise

PeopleCountryWantBuiltPipeline

There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later ages, including our own.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

DownPrinciplesWayQuestionOwn

People have seen me fighting everything from 'Fast and Furious' to the IRS on Planned Parenthood to a host of things, Benghazi and others.

Jason Chaffetz

PeopleMeFightingFastOthersSeen

A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.

Joseph Conrad

ManSecretOpenSideActionsMost

Women have the feeling that since they didn't make the rules, the rules have nothing to do with them.

Diane Johnson

WomenFeelingRulesNothingMake

I'm kind of intimidated by the big screen - I often keep my performances much smaller and much more natural and subtle.

Chloe Sevigny

KindMoreBigNaturalScreenKeep

Most kids have an innate feeling of the sense of God and spirit. But either we forget about it over time, or we're scared away from it.

Corbin Bernsen

GodTimeFeelingForgetSpiritOver

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