"Let's do it right. This is for the ages."

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Source : 1978 Quoted byJCarter Brown, Director, National Gallery of Art, Washington, in theWashington Post, 27 Aug1995. On his design for the gallery's East Building which was soaring to an unbudgeted cost of $94.4m.

I. M. Pei

“Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.”
“Tiffs among the faggots were apparently the stuff of quiet merriment.”
“Without a doubt, Eddie Van Halen is the greatest guitar player who has ever lived.”
“In the Sacramento of the 1950s, it was as though White simply hadn't had time enough to figure Brown out. It was a busy white time. Brown was like the skinny or fat kids left over after the team captains chose sides. You take the rest â€” my cue to wander away to the sidelines, to wander away.”

Source : Richard Rodriguez (2003). “Brown: The Last Discovery of America”, p.13, Penguin
“I don't always get to do a lot of bad guys.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Crossing the uplands of time, Skirting the borders of night, Scaling the face of the peak of dreams, We enter the region of light, And hastening on with eager intent, Arrive at the rainbow's end, And here uncover the pot of gold Buried deep in the heart of a friend.”
“I think people understand me, me as a person and what I went through because I kept it on the plate. I never hid nothing. I was never in the closet. I smoked dope, I gang banged, I did this, I did that; whatever I did it was always out.”
“I heard Yiddish when my father's family came to the house, which was as seldom as my mother could arrange it.”

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