Jane Jacobs Quotes
A region is an area safely larger than the last one to whose problems we found no solution.
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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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A No. 1 record is hard to come by.
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A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique.
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It might seem a psychotic, insane thing, quitting a job after I'd built a great career over eight years, but it was a wake-up call. All too often we ignore those, forget that we don't know how long we're here for and that we need to make the most of every moment.
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A person fully awakened to the jewel-like dignity of their own life is capable of truly respecting that same treasure in others.
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I have always weirdly seen myself as more of a character actor. I have never been suave. I could never see myself playing James Bond. I suppose I could fake it, but I am certainly not James Bond in real life.
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A region is an area safely larger than the last one to whose problems we found no solution.
