Jane Jacobs Quotes
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I never feel insecure when there are two female leads.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
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I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
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To begin with, I don't have any stage fright.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.
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I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.
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I was lucky enough to go to an all-boys prep school in upstate New York that had a film program, so we had access to 16mm Bolex cameras, Nagra sound recorders, Arriflex cameras. We even had an Oxberry animation stand!
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I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.
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If you can come to the Olympic Games and leave with a medal then that is alright.
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All Australians understand that high-quality, reliable and affordable broadband is a critical part of the infrastructure our nation needs to prosper in coming years.
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I'm trying to cultivate a long-term career rather than get every job right this minute. That'd be putting too much pressure on myself. I'd go crazy if I thought like that.
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Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part of being human.
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The greatness of a musician is measured by the degree of fanaticism he brings to his playing.
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That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.
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There are two great fundamental problems common to all thought: (i) the problem of world- and life-affirmation and world- and life-negation, and (2) the problem of ethics and the relations between ethics and these two forms of man's spiritual attitude to Being.
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There were times when other people said I was on the short list, but as time passed and nothing happened, I didn’t expect the recognition would come because people who were familiar with my work were slowly dying off.
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Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.
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For me, chess is at the same time a game, a sport, a science and an art. And perhaps even more than that,. There is someting hard to explain to those who do not know the game well. One must first learn to play it correctly in order to savor its richness.
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We at The Web Standards Project turned everything on its head. We said browsers should support the same standards instead of competing to invent new tags and scripting languages. We said designers, developers, and content folks should create one site that was accessible to everyone.
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I'm going to write a whole pilot and see if anyone's interested, and if not then I'll just live out the tortured life instead of showing it on TV.
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Redundancy is expensive but indispensable.
