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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I went being unemployed for three years to being the lead in a British feature in the days when we only made two a year, 1990. It was ridiculous really.
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Taxpayers will not stand for - nor should they - the funding of poster sites, leaflets or advertising. What people will support is funding for political education, for training, for party organization.
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I had a very comfortable life, but there were people who spent their life in prison, whose families were destroyed.
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I have not eaten a lot of insects. I ate a termite in Africa, but it was on a bet. It was a soldier termite. It was alive, and I don't really recommend the live soldier termite as something you want to start with if you're going to start exploring eating insects.
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It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.
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I think any cancer patient, if you dig not too deeply, they want to live.
