Christopher Alexander Quotes
From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.
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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
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The entertainment industry isn't a line of work encouraged in the Persian culture. When I called my dad to say I wanted to quit medicine, there was about three minutes of silence. I'm not sure he knew what to do with himself!
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.
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No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.
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I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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I don't know anyone who likes the American League games better. Maybe some fans do. But if you're not an actual DH, you probably prefer the National League.
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I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I played football all four years. I started on Varsity my sophomore year, and senior year I was captain.
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I'm constantly trying to work on the person that I am and work on my shortcomings, and I guess I want people to know that it's ok to be a work in progress, as long as you keep trying to figure it out. But that search and that discovery is what makes life kind of rich, and it's what makes life rich... period.
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I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
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If you have a major disaster involving hundreds of thousands, or in this case millions of people, whether it be a natural disaster or an act of terrorism, the first 72 hours are going to be totally chaotic no matter what you plan to do.
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In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
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When you like what you like, it makes it easy for your husband to shop for you!
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I get to go to all these beautiful places, so it's nice being able to take pictures of it.
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I fear that light touch regulations that have allowed the Internet to prosper will now be replaced by a heavy hand that stifles innovation and does not adapt well to change. The Internet is not broken.
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The positions are probably at this point so enormous. Most people are up to their limit.
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Women do amazing, creative, wonderful things.
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From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.
