"You don't need everybody to agree with you, but you do need a few people. And by this point I have a fairly high degree of confidence in my judgment, in that I don't doubt my sanity; or, even if I do, I don't have to be reassured."

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Peter Schjeldahl

#People Quotes #Doubt Quotes #Degrees Quotes

“There is the tendency to place ourselves and our ambitions at the center of our lives. This is very human, but it is not Christian.”
“Whatever you build, youre building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.”
“You have to begin to put the infrastructure in place to put in high-speed trains...It should be a national priority. If the French can do it, why cant we?”
“The results of a new study are out this week saying that New Jersey is one of the most livable states in the country. The study has a margin of error of 100 percent.”
“In some conditions, the architecture of textile is more relevant than in other conditions or the opacity of the material form. Pattern in the world of scarce materiality and a hybridity becomes a way of creating a new authenticity. Sometimes there is a certain kind of nobility of a group of materials literally of the earth, which had a certain nobility of presence, but is very different from the materials we have now.”

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“A product name has to be specific. You know that Tasty Soup is tasty - that Hot Chips will burn off the roof of your mouth.”
“I was very, very shocked about Cooperstown. I thought my chances were fairly good, but I tried to stay low key about it, not too high and not too low. That was the way I played, too.”
“Financial crises are an unfortunate but necessary consequence of modern capitalism.”

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