James Rouse Quotes
For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.
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If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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I watch Jay. I watch 'Letterman'. I flip back and forth between 'Conan' and 'Letterman', especially the top of the show for those guys.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.
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There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.
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My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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I love iTunes as much as anybody. It's very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you get when you walk into a record store. And I think a lot of people are still thrilled to spend a half hour there and go through the bins and make some purchases.
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Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.
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When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.
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When I was young I had an apprenticeship as an engineer.
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The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.
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New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify music that is neither jazz, classical, pop or rock. They didn't know what to call it or what to do with it. So they threw it all together under this one name.
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I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.
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You can hate me, but why knock my hustle? I'ma be the queen no matter how they shuffle.
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I don't necessarily pay extreme attention to what I wear on a daily basis, but I do love to wear something special for an important occasion or when I feel happy.
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Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.
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Fernando Vargas may have had a 6-pack in his stomach, but he didn't have a six-pack on his chin.
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The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.
