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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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
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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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The Communist Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy; and one means: the utilization of the class struggle.
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My father was a television director, and I always knew I wanted to be in the industry, but I had thought my role was behind the camera as opposed to in front.
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Life is too short to live with any but the greatest books.
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I do the same kind of rewriting that I do in the shorts that I do in long books - and that is a lot. The book really comes to life in the rewriting.
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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.
