Charles Jencks Quotes

I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

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• I believe there are more films that involve love and forgiveness than violence, but they often seem fake and are almost embarrassing to watch.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Believe
  • Violence
  • Forgiveness

• I am very concerned about nutrition and always try to be careful about what I eat.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Eat
  • Careful
  • Nutrition

• Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Fun
  • Food
  • Style

• We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • World
  • Light

• We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Law
  • Grace
  • Quick

• My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Confidence
  • Flaws
  • Shake

• All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Space

• I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Like
  • Take
  • Sensitive

• The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Poverty
  • Program
  • Eliminate

• Gujarat is the fourth state in the world where we have a separate climate-change department.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Where
  • Fourth

• I didn't want to be an accountant; I found myself being a banker, which was a bit different. I went to university, and I was going to do a Ph.D. in the States, but I didn't get the funding for it, so I had two years where I had a bit of a wobble and didn't really know what I wanted to do, and I ended up working as a banker.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Up
  • Different
  • Want

• I was actually a Cowboys fan.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Fan
  • Actually
  • Cowboys

• There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Country
  • Fashion

• Something I learned when I was very young: with cooking, it doesn't matter where you are; you can always cook. You can end up in small village in Peru where somebody's cooking, take a spoon and taste it, and you might not be too sure what you're eating, but you can taste the soul in the food. That's what is beautiful with food.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Up
  • Soul
  • Beautiful

• I'm the only one responsible for the choices I make and the opportunities I get. When you read the script, you don't know how it's going to shape up. You just know what you've been narrated.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Up
  • Know
  • Choices

• Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I don't even want to touch on the topic of black quarterback, because I think this game is bigger than black, white or even green.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Think
  • Game
  • Black

• If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • People
  • Myself
  • Air

• Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.

  

  Clara Barton
  • Up
  • May
  • Growth

• In art, S. Bridget is usually represented with her perpetual flame as a symbol, sometimes with a column of fire, said to have been seen above her head when she took the veil.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Art
  • Fire
  • Symbol

• Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

  

  Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Architecture
  • Simplicity

• I think that there have been a number of public figures where you start hearing commentary that is dangerous because what it starts doing is it starts dividing us up as Americans.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Numbers

• I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

  

  Charles Jencks
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Architecture