Charles Jencks Quotes
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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Part of the reason for moving to New York was the sense that it just didn't matter how much work I did in England, I continued to be seen simply as a Redgrave. I did feel I could be who I am in New York and we all like to feel appreciated.
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Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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You don't want people rooting for anything other than the team that they love and the players that they think the world of to win. We don't want there to be another agenda.
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe.
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The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
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How can finite man commune with an infinite God? To both Christians and Jews, God himself has made that possible by irrupting into the temporal world. To Christians, God became man in the Incarnation; to Jews, the God that spoke out of the fire on Mount Sinai gave his Torah.
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I was born and have ever remaind [sic] in the most humble walks of life.
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History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.
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Many people still believe that 'green' solutions are too expensive, but they are actually much cheaper when all of the costs to public health, social services, and waste handling are factored into the same equation.
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I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.
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What is the most interesting thing to people? Other people.
