Geoffrey West Quotes
Cities are just a physical manifestation of your interactions, our interactions, and the clustering and grouping of individuals.
Quotes to Explore
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The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.
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Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.
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I am a Zionist.
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I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
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We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
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I did 'Are We There Yet?' because I wanted to do a movie for my fans' kids. Black kids don't really see movies on this budget for them, starring them. And there's so many white kids that love that movie.
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I remember how to be a person by being around them.
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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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Being an actor does make you aware of your age.
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I've always wanted to work with Paul Newman. I had a couple opportunities in the past, and I didn't take advantage of it, so it was really fun to be working with him.
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Travelling expands the mind rarely.
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I buy way too many books.
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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
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It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
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But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not going to happen if you don't show up.
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Rodeo careers can end without warning, as quick as the next try at an eight-second ride.
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For more than two centuries our foreparents labored here without wages; they made cotton king; and they built the homes of their masters in the midst of brutal injustice and shameful humiliation - and yet out of a bottomless vitality our people continue to thrive and develop.
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The most important domestic challenge facing the U.S. at the close of the twentieth century is the re-creation of fatherhood as avital social role for men. At stake is nothing less than the success of the American experiment. For unless we reverse the trend of fatherlessness, no other set of accomplishments--not economic growth or prison construction or welfare reform or better schools--will succeed in arresting the decline of child well-being and the spread of male violence. To tolerate the trend of fatherlessness is to accept the inevitability of continued social recession.
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God, make me willing to be made willing.
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I can remember my sister and me volunteering for Nixon. My parents liked him. I liked my parents. So I figured he was good.
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Cities are just a physical manifestation of your interactions, our interactions, and the clustering and grouping of individuals.
