Christopher Alexander Quotes
We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.Christopher Alexander
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New York City has no need to move on from 9/11 because, in a sense, it moved on days after, moments after.
Karan Mahajan -
Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.
Walter Kirn -
There's a sense of being under siege in many Muslim communities. People just assume there are agents or informants in their mosque now. It's a fact of life.
Ibrahim Hooper -
I've given just as much of my life to that, and I practiced it with the same zeal, as I have acting. And I think that many of my skill sets from being a housewife I used for producing. Because you don't stop until it's done.
Frances McDormand -
No one becomes an expert in a new career overnight, even if you are coming from another career where you were established and experienced.
Jack Canfield -
It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!
Becky G -
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
Abraham Lincoln -
The comics I made from 1990 to 1997 were largely based in vaguely urban, vaguely dystopic settings because that was my reference point for comics storytelling in general.
Nate Powell -
America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.
Barbara Mikulski -
Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.
Oliver Joseph Lodge -
I don't really mind not being a part of a film - because if there is no part for me, I will never force myself upon a film. I feel like it's just a distraction. If it is not organically incorporated into the story, it just feels like a stupid appearance, like a sort of wink. I hate that.
Xavier Dolan
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I trust people too much, and the other tragedy is I can't say no.
Farooq Abdullah -
All my friends from my past would know me as Scott Diggs. Taye Diggs comes from Scott-taye. When I went to college I liked it because it was so different and I have an infatuation with nicknames.
Taye Diggs -
I hope I can be as good of a father to my son as my dad was to me.
Calvin Johnson -
There isn't a single American city, in my estimation, that has sufficient plans for a nuclear terrorist event.
Irwin Redlener -
Nothing surprises me. One thing I don't ever have in my world is surprise.
Nancy Pelosi -
I believe sometimes we aren't always in charge of everything that we do creatively. We submit to things as we're going on our own journey.
Madonna Breakfast Club
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Our primary goal in the consumer health service companies I back is helping them create an uncompromisingly great consumer experience.
John Sculley -
My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.
Ang Lee -
Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this.
David Chalmers -
Fame for fame's sake is toxic - some people want that, with no boundaries. It's unhealthy.
Annie Lennox Eurythmics -
We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.
Christopher Alexander