Jane Jacobs Quotes
Writing, printing, and the Internet give a false sense of security about the permanence of culture.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.
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I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
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I don't like to post fresh standup material, because I want to use it in a special. The stuff I like to post online I like to be off-the-cuff moments.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche.
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People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.
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Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl. I am now competing in an arena where I can hold my head high. I feel quite confident in what I'm doing now, much more than the singing. I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.
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I'm stronger and sassier as a redhead.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.
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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.
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I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.
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Life is tragic and absurd, and none of it has any purpose at all.
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There is currency to celebrity, or celebrity is a currency... You can spend it in a lot of ways, or you can squander it. You can be taxed, as well. I really started thinking long and hard about how to use that currency as long as I had it.
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Ambiguity is very interesting in writing; it's not very interesting in science.
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Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts.
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In England you're skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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Writing, printing, and the Internet give a false sense of security about the permanence of culture.
