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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One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know.
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I think there's a mystery about what a social movement is.
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I guess I'm used to TV where we don't really rehearse. You block it out, and then you just start shooting.
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How unhappy are you that your dishwasher has replaced washing dishes by hand, your washing machine has displaced washing clothes by hand or your vacuum cleaner has replaced hand cleaning? My guess is this ‘job displacement’ has been very welcome, as will the ‘job displacement’ that will occur over the next 10 years. This is a good thing. Everyone wants more jobs and less work.
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When you make something, cleaning it out of structural debris is one of the most vital things you do.
