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.'
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Obviously, I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.
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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.
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Hey, I may loathe myself, but it has nothing to do with the fact that I'm Jewish.
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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.
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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.
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I was just never discouraged from doing something wacky like trying to be a comedian.
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I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.
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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.
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People don't stop eating, and they don't stop drinking coffee.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It seems like there's a real world for new ideas in Philly.
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I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house.
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So for years I kept mum about my passion for needle arts.
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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.
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I think the best directors rarely lose their temper.
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Everybody in New York is looking for something. Once in a while, somebody finds it.
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I just make the music feel the way I want it to feel, and I don't put it out until I'm totally happy with it.
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In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.
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When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!
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Great," Shane said. "Look i'd rather not be on janitorial duty. I have allergies to cleaners." "And to cleaning," Michael said. "Look who's talking, Didn't the do one of those Animal Planet documentaries about the roaches in your room?
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When you make something, cleaning it out of structural debris is one of the most vital things you do.
