Christopher Alexander Quotes
Look more carefully...to find out what it really is that is repeating there .... Beyond its elements, each building or town is defined by certain patterns of relationships among the elements.... These relationships are not extra, but necessary to the elements... The elements themselves are patterns of relationships.
Quotes to Explore
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I realized that you didn't have to make self-deprecating remarks or turn yourself into the butt of some unspoken joke. I also discovered that being big didn't deter possible suitors.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.
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Half of my closet is Barbie clothes - PVC skirts, cropped fuzzy sweaters, and velvet minis.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.
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The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.
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I love Billy Joel. I cry sometimes when I hear 'The Stranger.' 'You May Be Right' may be one of the greatest songs ever written.
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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The reason why Broken Men only became Untouchables was because in addition to being Buddhists, they retained their habit of beef-eating, which gave additional ground for offence to the Brahmins to carry their new-found love and reverence to the cow to its logical conclusion.
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If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.
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I really like supernatural stories, but, to me, 'Witches of East End' is really grounded. It's not just going for the magic tricks and keeping it superficial and action-y.
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In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.
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Yes, you want to do studio movies, but I also want to grow as an actor, and an actress like me is not going to get roles where you grow and evolve in a studio film. It's just not gonna happen.
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In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country.
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Back in the '70s, like one of my favorite movies ever was 'The Bad News Bears', and that was a kids' movie, but I don't think of it that way. I think of it as just a great movie because Walter Matthau was so funny and so harsh with those kids.
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The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
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I feel a lot of life in me and a lot of creative energy, and I think it's better suited somewhere it can run free.
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I don't write historical novels but novels that wonder, 'And what if it happened in this way and not in this other one?'
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A potentially useful property of forecasts based on cointegration is that when extended some way ahead, the forecasts of the two series will form a constant ratio, as is expected by some asymptotic economic theory.
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Look more carefully...to find out what it really is that is repeating there .... Beyond its elements, each building or town is defined by certain patterns of relationships among the elements.... These relationships are not extra, but necessary to the elements... The elements themselves are patterns of relationships.
