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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Bass players and drummers are brothers in the basement cooking up the groove that makes people move.
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I used to be a huge fan of 'Lockup' on MSNBC, and that certainly has helped with my understanding of the world.
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People will always try to stop you doing the right thing if it is unconventional.
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Nothing in the world is difficult,' said the Patriarch, 'it is only our own thoughts that make things seem so.
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Redundancy is expensive but indispensable.
