Charles Jencks Quotes
Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or a pineapple, running from its bottom up its sides to the top, and you will find an extraordinary truth: recurring numbers, ratios and proportions.
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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I hate competition.
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There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Part II' and 'Part III' enough, but I still like the ending of the first one better.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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My opinion can be completely different after a show.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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I feel that we, as Indians, have a knack for loving a stereotypical, sobbing, sympathy-seeking personality. I feel that we need to promote quirky, cool and youthful talent. We have to stop propagating the sob-story angle of celebs, where they try to be larger-than-life. That is very outdated. It is so boring that it puts you to sleep.
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All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.
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The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.
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The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand.
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Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.
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Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.
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If someone grabbed me, I'd probably be able to choke them out in about eight seconds.
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We knew people in Cleveland who had been making movies for 20 years that nobody sees. Every couple of years, they make a little small movie on their own, and it goes to some minor festivals, and that's it. Four years later, they do it again. That's a fulfilling life for some filmmakers, and they're happy to work that way.
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I looked at but was not allowed to touch Ai Weiwei's 'Sunflower Seeds' at the Tate. The film of making them was really moving.
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I moved to Manchester to join a band and ended up getting into acting, and I moved back to London to become an actor and ended up joining a band.
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Since the beginning, the people of the college and I have agreed that the music of MerleFest is 'traditional plus.'
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Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or a pineapple, running from its bottom up its sides to the top, and you will find an extraordinary truth: recurring numbers, ratios and proportions.
