Charles Jencks Quotes
The cell is a city of production centres, each part working away like mad, and it's co-ordinated. Six trillion cells in a body - you can't help but be moved.
Quotes to Explore
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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If your aim is to attack the United States, it is hard to imagine a more difficult way of getting here than by posing as a refugee.
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My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
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You've got to try to guard, make an effort to defend to the best of your ability. You have to rebound the ball, which was an area that was so critical. And they wanted you to play smart and have fun. I've kind of tried to let our people understand those are the most important things that I could possibly tell them.
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Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
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I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what was happening - these better-made foreign car companies were encroaching on the U.S., and the U.S. car makers had less than half of their own country's market.
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I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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I just throw on foundation and under-eye concealer, then dust bronzer on my cheeks so they look defined.
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When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.
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It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.
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If you're at an award ceremony, you're against your mates.
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We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.
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For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
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We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the conquest and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: None is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope!
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In New York, the drummers rush for a reason - because there's so much energy crackling through everything in that city and so many collisions at a highly accelerated rate.
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There are three kinds of people I've found: those who think the universe is good, those who believe it's corrupt, and those who don't want to think about it any more than they can help. I prefer the first two.
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I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do.
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An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
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My mother had a radio show - a Barbara Walters type of gal and was very successful for about 20-some years on a radio station.
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The cell is a city of production centres, each part working away like mad, and it's co-ordinated. Six trillion cells in a body - you can't help but be moved.
