Christopher Alexander Quotes

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

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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
  • Day
  • Government

• 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 am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Long
  • Love
  • May

• We put a lot of pride into our work, and to have it show on Sundays is a testament to all the work we've put in.

  

  Clay Matthews III
  • Work
  • Pride

• If you go against someone, you say, you can't vote for these Democrats, they don't have good values, they're not good people, they're weak, they're spineless, they're don't love America, they're giving aid and comfort to Saddam Hussein, that's the kind of thing I think is bad for America, because it stops the voters from thinking. And any time you stop thinking in a free society you get in trouble.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Values
  • Vote
  • Democrats

• Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed.

  

  Melissa Bean
  • Democracy
  • Engagement
  • Engaged

• One of my fondest memories growing up in Rwanda was seeing everyone participating in community-building activities. This happened every Saturday at the end of month. People work together in cleaning streets, planting trees, and take care of each other by facilitating productive conversations and actions that are beneficial for the society.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

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

  

  Christopher Alexander
  • Cleaning