Charles Jencks Quotes
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges, and brownish tints known romantically as 'champagne.'
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I remember reading a 'Scientific American' article about the use of new physical techniques - including neutron scattering - as a method for unravelling the structure of the ribosome. I was fascinated.
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I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
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The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in the end, make you happy to be leaving.
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I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.
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It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who... burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles.
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You can't live for other people, you know? You gotta live for yourself and better the people around you and make an impact.
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I would rather have been beaten up in the media than live a life that wasn't happy.
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When you are suddenly standing in front of a bunch of journalists being asked what it's like being a British Olympic legend, it's a bit much to take in.
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I think any cancer patient, if you dig not too deeply, they want to live.
