Christopher Alexander Quotes
Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive; you will be able to design a house together with your family; a garden for your children; places where you can work; beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream.
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Even as a kid, I read 'Jung – Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
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'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.
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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
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The TiVo is really an amazing machine. Like everyone who has one, I totally recommend it. Just as everyone who's married will tell you to get married, and everyone who has a baby tells you to have a baby, everyone who owns a TiVo will tell you to get a TiVo, and they'll say things like 'Your life will be completely different.' It's true.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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When I did 'The Cell' - no matter what you think of that movie, because I have my opinions of it too - it was, you know, I still have nightmares from the research that I did. Not from playing the part, just from the research.
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.
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I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.
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I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.
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Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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We had a great dramatic society in school, and that's where I first got exposure both as an actor and director.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.
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It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.
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Doing charity work is always cool. It's always a good thing.
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I've got miracle lyrical capability all in me / With the agility to escape a killer bee colony.
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Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare.
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It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.
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Without the right marketing metrics, you are shooting in the dark. The only way to know if things are working for you or not is those metrics.
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Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive; you will be able to design a house together with your family; a garden for your children; places where you can work; beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream.
