Christopher Alexander Quotes

When you make something, cleaning it out of structural debris is one of the most vital things you do.

Christopher Alexander

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• My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: 'Our children, our children, our children.'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Important
  • Children
  • Future

• Obviously, I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • High
  • Always
  • Quirky

• I've already lived one full life, and so now I'm about to endeavor to see what else the good Lord has in store for me, and I'm wide open.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Me

• Hey, I may loathe myself, but it has nothing to do with the fact that I'm Jewish.

  

  Larry David
  • May
  • Myself
  • Jewish

• I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Happy

• I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Education
  • Football
  • Fight

• I was just never discouraged from doing something wacky like trying to be a comedian.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Trying
  • Never
  • Doing

• I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Best
  • Cultures
  • West

• I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you're playing a car salesman, you don't want to be an OK car salesman, you want to play the best car salesman.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Best
  • Car
  • Teacher

• People don't stop eating, and they don't stop drinking coffee.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Stop
  • Coffee

• Enough of these little kitty cats we keep sending to Washington. David Dewhurst will compromise every day in the U.S. Senate... It's what he's done every day in state government.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Done
  • Government
  • Day

• All this fame and money, which have so thrilled me when they came to others, leave me cold when they come to me. I am not an ascetic, but I don't know what to do with them, and my daily life has never been so trying, and there is no one to fill it emotionally.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Money

• Feminism has taught women to sue men for sexual harassment or date rape when men initiate with the wrong person or with the wrong timing; no one has taught men to sue women for sexual trauma for saying 'yes,' then 'no,' then 'yes.' … Men are still expected to initiate, but now, if they do it badly, they could go to jail.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women

• It seems like there's a real world for new ideas in Philly.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • World
  • Real

• I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house.

  

  Ariel Gore
  • House

• So for years I kept mum about my passion for needle arts.

  

  Deborah Norville
  • Passion

• All these movies are observational comedies. I see somebody, maybe a dry cleaner, and notice how they are. Maybe I'll decide to turn a person with those traits into a studio chief.

  

  Christopher Guest

• I think the best directors rarely lose their temper.

  

  Luke Evans

• I always joke that I want to be able to retire from boxing and still be able to look into the mirror without seeing scars all over my face. I love my sport, but I would rather not have to spend hours doing my makeup to cover up the memories once I retire.

  Mandy Bujold
  • Memories
  • Mirror
  • Face

• My grand uncle was a traditional priest, and he would always say to me as a kid, 'We stand in our own light,' which essentially for him meant we were entirely responsible for a lot of what happens to us and for the ways in which our lives play out.

  

  Chris Abani
  • Light
  • Uncle

• Tech can help population health, make health more accessible, more affordable. Tech can also get people get more included in the economy and contribute and drive growth, and growth and wealth are great contributors to a safer world.

  

  Frans van Houten
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• I did a lot of blue collar work. I also worked as a temp. I did, you know, light construction and cleaning. I did clerical temping. I also fix cars and motorcycles and electronics.

  

  David Autor
  • Work
  • Light
  • Blue

• When you make something, cleaning it out of structural debris is one of the most vital things you do.

  

  Christopher Alexander
  • Cleaning