Christopher Alexander Quotes
The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling.
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If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
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Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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If anything, I'm the most hesitant to bring on a label. That terrifies me. I think people believe major labels are linked to success. They're absolutely not that.
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His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.
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I didn't grow up with a lot of babies in my life because I only grew up with my parents - I didn't have any brothers or sisters - and I didn't have my family close by.
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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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Instead of reading a paper, we now read the news online. Instead of buying books at a store, we buy them on-line. What's so revolutionary? The Internet has mainly affected our leisure life.
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Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now.
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By nature, men desire the beautiful.
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You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.
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As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can.
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I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.
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I firmly believe that we can protect taxpayer dollars, bus drivers' jobs, and the safety of our students. We just need a mayor who actually cares about all three.
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Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.
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If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.
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Men view life to be as precious as women do, and to say that men have a more violent nature is insulting to men.
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We are providing a platform to creators who are expressing their emotions; they are expressing what they are feeling - fears, joys, terror. That's what art is about, and we don't want to censor it, but neither would we permit violence which feels gratuitous or glorified to be on our platform.
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The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.
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It took me a long time to adjust and narrow down my life. I made my shift to the mind-set … there's time for my daughter outside work and that's all. This is my new life. This is not drudgery. This is fun.
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I want to thank the people of Texas for asking me to represent them in Washington.
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Anxious toddlers tend to grow into anxious adults.
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The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling.
