Charles Jencks Quotes
Beautiful people are always with us, as evolutionary psychologists and a trip to the news-stand confirm.
Quotes to Explore
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'
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There is no doubt in the sanctity of Mecca, but a donkey won't become a Hajj pilgrim by just going through the motions.
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One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.
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Music helped me to get out of a rough period in my life when I really struggled to see any future for myself and was terrified about what was happening to the people around me.
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Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
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A person is not merely a single subject distinguished from all the others. It is especially a being to which is attributed a relative autonomy in relation to the environment with which it is most immediately in contact.
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And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.
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Beautiful people are always with us, as evolutionary psychologists and a trip to the news-stand confirm.
