Christopher Alexander Quotes
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn't happen. I love him and his wife; they're so sweet. I was very nervous.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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I don't ever want to be sad about my life.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.
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But nothing beats a Woody Allen film on a Sunday night, with a glass of wine and some leftovers.
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It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
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There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.
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Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
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I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.
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The year hasn't started yet and it's already been the best I've ever had.
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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
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It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.
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When I came into your life your life was over. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is the end. You can say that things could have turned out differently. That they could have been some other way. But what does that mean? They are not some other way. They are this way. You're asking that I second say the world.
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Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.
