Christopher Alexander Quotes
To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named.
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There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.
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The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!
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Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
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My earliest memories of horror are 'Friday the 13th Part 2,' John Carpenter's 'The Thing,' 'Halloween,' 'An American Werewolf in London,' and 'A Nightmare On Elm Street'... and 'Hatchet' is so obviously inspired by those films that I may as well have made it in 1984.
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I don't move away from grief, rather through it.
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.
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I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to improve society by networking human minds.
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Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.
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When people say I have become a celebrity, I remind them of fame's flip side. For instance, if I want to watch a movie in a cinema, I have to enter through a side exit just before the film begins and leave by the same exit before the credits roll.
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When I was just starting out, I had two choices: I could be the beautiful girl on the main man's arm as decoration, or I would have to do a little independent movie to get any depth in the female character.
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Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.
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There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism.
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Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition.
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The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.
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I like some of the B movies that are intentionally funny.
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To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named.
