Christopher Alexander Quotes
One begins to think with that new building block, rather than with littler pieces. And finally, the things which seem like elements dissolve, and leave a fabric of relationships behind, which is the stuff that actually repeats itself, and gives the structure to a building or a town.
Christopher Alexander
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Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the 100 years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement and my parents' then-illegal and interracial marriage.
Natasha Trethewey
If the world is an objective reality that exists independently of us, then humans themselves, even in their own eyes, are nothing more than objects, and their life stories merely a series of disconnected historical accidents, which they may wonder at, but which they themselves have nothing to do with.
Imre Kertesz
I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
Zach Gilford
I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
Imelda Marcos
I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally.
Patricia Clarkson
It's a fine line of doing what's good for your life and what your parents want you to do, but also following your dreams. With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things along with that.
Kaley Cuoco
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
Baruch Spinoza
I'm an only child, and we're a close family.
Maika Monroe
I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.
Aaron Huey
I never wanted to be famous. It was amusing at first, but now I hate it. I just wanted to be respected by people I respect. And I wanted to be rich. It's best to get rich, then you can do what you want.
Caitlin Moran
Part of my job as a food writer is to describe food. So my work on 'Top Chef,' I feel, is an extension of that. When we give a criticism to the contestant, we want to make sure we tell them why it's not working and why it would work if they did it a different way.
Padma Lakshmi
I have a daughter who I love very much, I hire women, I've worked with women, I've never had an issue with women.
Adam Carolla
I've been in so many writing workshops where someone hands in a story, and when the other writers in the workshop are giving feedback, they say, 'This is unbelievable.' And the writer says, 'Well, actually, the events are based in real life. This actually happened.'
Jesmyn Ward
Does it sound outrageous to you that military spending for fiscal year 2000 will be almost $290 billion and all other domestic discretionary spending, such as education, job training, housing, Amtrak, medical research, environment, Head Start and many other worthwhile programs will total $246 billion, the biggest disparity in modern times ?
Dale Bumpers
It is a law, that every event depends on some law.
John Stuart Mill
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Stephen Covey
One begins to think with that new building block, rather than with littler pieces. And finally, the things which seem like elements dissolve, and leave a fabric of relationships behind, which is the stuff that actually repeats itself, and gives the structure to a building or a town.
Christopher Alexander