Jane Jacobs Quotes
A region is an area safely larger than the last one to whose problems we found no solution.
Quotes to Explore
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
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A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects.
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As Americans after 9/11, we're much more united, together as a nation, and we got stronger, better, and more at peace. By peace, I mean the harmony you can feel in our united determination to fight these terrorists and killers.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
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Living with very limited expectations is a much more immediate way of living. You really do just make the best of everything you have. I guess kids have that ability; they wait in joyful anticipation of something rather than that sense of entitlement.
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My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me.
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People have really strong images of what church is, and it's almost certainly not the same as mine.
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I wouldn't call myself anti-nuclear.
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The script is always the main preparation for me. Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it, but if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is all in the script.
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A steady job is at least as deleterious to the spirit of bachelorhood as a steady date. Some jobs are worse than actual wives.
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Mr. Sensible learned only catchwords from them. He could talk like Epicurus of spare diet, but he was a glutton. He had from Montaigne the language of friendship, but no friend.
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In brief, when women batter, men’s first priority is to support the women and help them change; when men batter, women’s first priority is to escape the men and put them in prison.
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'Cause I knew you were trouble when you walked in,So shame on me now.Flew me to places I'd never been,So you put me down oh.
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Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change.
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I think that when you get right down to it, people do evolve on different issues. And, you know, I'm pro-life. And I was begrudgingly the other way.
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Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.
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I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
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As soon as you truly commit to making something happen, the 'how' will reveal itself.
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Empathic listening is so powerful because it gives you accurate data to work with. Instead of projecting your own autobiography and assuming thoughts, feelings, motives and interpretation, you're dealing with the reality inside another person's head and heart. You're listening to understand. You're focused on receiving the deep communication of another human soul.
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The reason I put so much energy into it at the beginning was that while there were plenty of people looking after the talkies, almost nobody was doing the same for the silents. Now there are plenty of very good historians and restorers.
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A region is an area safely larger than the last one to whose problems we found no solution.
