Charles Jencks Quotes
The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant.Charles Jencks
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I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.
Tavi Gevinson -
Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.
Wendy Kopp -
Personal style? I don't really believe in that. Whatever is comfortable.
Waris Dirie -
What is it about summer that makes children grow? We feed and water them more. They do get more sun, but that probably doesn't matter as much as the book they read or the rule they broke that taught them something they couldn't have learned any other way.
Nancy Gibbs -
I'm very fortunate. I have a wonderful family, lots of hobbies and athletic pursuits. I always wanted to have a very well-rounded life.
Laura Lang -
The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
Salman Khan
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If it seems like you are playing around and not practicing, that's when you know you really love it.
Galveston Giant -
I'm no hardened criminal who the authorities need to hunt.
Vijay Mallya -
Everybody believes in psychiatry; it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof.
Kate Millett -
My parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school.
Flavor Flav -
Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.
C. S. Lewis -
I locate a great deal of the power of Occupy Wall Street in the name itself, 'Occupy Wall Street,' or '#OccupyWallStreet.' It works because the name contains everything you need to know: the tactic and the target. The name is also modular. You can create your own offshoot in your own city.
Dana Spiotta
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Even the good she found in him was really the goodness she had put in him, the goodness he had put on himself as a disguise in order to get her to marry him.
Orson Scott Card -
A man without money is a bow without an arrow.
Jack McDevitt -
The truth seems to be that we live in concepts of the imagination before the reason has established them. If this is true, then reason is simply the methodizer of the imagination.
Wallace Stevens -
He was always before men’s eyes; a course of action which, by increasing our familiarity with great men, diminishes our respect for them.
Livy -
To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.
Ai Weiwei -
I recognize the necessity of animal experiments with my mind but not with my heart.
Isaac Asimov
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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I hold to faith in the divine love - which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner of the earth, walked about as a man bearing the name of Jesus Christ - as the foundation on which alone my happiness rests.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Sing again, with your dear voice revealing A tone Of some world far from ours, Where music and moonlight and feeling Are one.
Percy Bysshe Shelley -
Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk.
Plutarch -
Maybe there are only atheists in foxholes. If the faithful truly and fully believe in a protective deity, why would they dive into a foxhole to protect themselves from the bullets whizzing by ? A part of their brain knows damn well that if they do not protect themselves, the bullets will hardly discriminate between those who claim faith and those who reject it.
J. Anderson Thomson -
The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant.
Charles Jencks