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.
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I am very concerned about nutrition and always try to be careful about what I eat.
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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.
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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.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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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.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.
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Gujarat is the fourth state in the world where we have a separate climate-change department.
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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.
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I was actually a Cowboys fan.
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There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.
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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.
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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.
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Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
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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.
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I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
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Today there are more things you can wear for the same occasions. I still like this idea of the perfect suit, and I always love tailoring, but today you can have more things for this type of situation, clothes that have class and that are mixable, and that are super well cut.
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I came to New York when I was eighteen years old, and the first audition that I ever went to was this huge cattle call at the Equity building where I had gone two days earlier to sign up - I didn't have an agent or anything. It was for 'Chicago.' There were probably three hundred people there.
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That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.
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The problem is that to be a producer, one must be a gambler, and the greatest French producers were gamblers.
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I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.
