Christopher Alexander Quotes

In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low.

Christopher Alexander

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• I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.

  

  Tamron Hall
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• The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
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• There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

  

  Rachel Weisz
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• I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.

  

  Vince Cable
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• I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.

  

  Ed Weeks
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• In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
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• I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
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• Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Up
  • Dream
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• It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.

  

  Kate Christensen
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  • Nice
  • Win

• The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Years
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• And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.

  

  Samuel Daniel
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• Football is losing its heart and sense of humour.

  

  Gary Lineker
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• The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.

  

  Rachel Weisz
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• I want to have an impact on my son.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Want
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• We are currently working on new policies to protect and create American jobs, particularly by improving education. We need more information in order to find the best solutions to this increasing concern for American families.

  

  Dan Lipinski
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• With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.

  

  Daniel Ek
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• I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.

  

  Sam Simon
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• I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.

  

  Daddy Yankee
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• I do feel bad when my films don't do well, but I respect audiences' verdict because they know well which films to support. If they don't like a film, we should accept it.

  

  Hansika Motwani
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  • Know
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• It actually is as fun to make men's costumes, especially if they are as good-looking as Chris Hemsworth.

  

  Colleen Atwood
  • Good
  • Men
  • Fun

• It would be nice to make a movie that other people want to make, because every one of these movies, I basically have to find the only company in the world that's willing to make it, and it's always a big challenge. I end up spending a tremendous amount of energy and time trying to get money to make these movies and it's exhausting.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
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  • Up
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• The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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• It's very counterintuitive to boil down something so personal, something that requires privacy. All of a sudden, you open it up to the world and put it in a context where you could easily trivialize what you've done. If people sense that discomfort, they're not wrong.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low.

  

  Christopher Alexander
  • Life
  • Single
  • Acceptance