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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Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and an affront to the international community.
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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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My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help.
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I always feel to do mythological and horror shows you need to be terrific actors. I am not that good.
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Twitter was actually the holdout in what has turned out to be my total purge of social media.
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The wonderful thing about being an artist in L.A. is that there is no taste. There's anarchy of taste, which seems good to me.
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There are a lot of great things about food, but it's something that's an eternal struggle in our contemporary society, where and how food is made, where it's coming from, how much to consume. There are so many layers to it.
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Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.
