Christopher Alexander Quotes
It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel alive, except by following this way. And, as you will see, this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form, as the trees and hills, and as our faces are.
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The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.
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The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.
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I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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I have a tendency to think that when you portray baddies in movies, they come out more human than good guys.
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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
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I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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Biggie has been the logo for success, the logo for doing it big - from popping champagne, the ladies, the fashion.
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I'm an atheist. I don't 'believe' at all.
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Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.
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Some of those songs, you really have to bite them. You challenge yourself, you challenge the audience, you do something different. People weren't expecting it.
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Sometimes I - I try not to read too many fiction or novels.
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Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
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Paradoxically, those who call for family values also tout the wonders of an unregulated market without observing the subtle cultural links between the family they seek to regulate and the market they hold free.
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It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel alive, except by following this way. And, as you will see, this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form, as the trees and hills, and as our faces are.
