Charles Landry Quotes
Contradictions, most of all, a balance between chaos and order. It needs neighborhoods vibrating with energy just as much as cozy little corners and parks; well-tended, middle-class sections as well as an alternative scene; technology centers for innovative youth and social facilities for older people.
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People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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I love anything to do with history.
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I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.
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McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.
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I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense.
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Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.
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China's own recent history proves that when it opens itself, there is nothing its people cannot accomplish. A more open China will lead to a more prosperous and stable China. That's good for China, the United States and, indeed, the entire world.
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The characteristics of an authentically empowered personality are humbleness, clarity, forgiveness and love.
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When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken.
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When I started stand-up, the first thing I did was to take an improv class.
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I love Harley Quinn. I do. I just love it.
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In 'A Poetics of Optics,' Equi writes that 'all images bank on alchemy.' This idea captures her fundamental sense of poetry as turning common material into something rare and valuable.
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First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
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Mis muertos siguen sufriendo el dolor de la vida en mí.
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When Clint Eastwood walks into a room, you may not know his name. But you know who he is.
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There's ageism in everything. I don't give a hoot. It isn't what other people think; it's what you think. But it's hard to come to terms with getting older. I admire people like Vivienne Westwood.
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I was in the original cast of 'Sunset Boulevard.' I played Betty. But I wasn't on the cast album.
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Universities have come to realize that online is not a fad. The question is not whether to engage in this area but how to do it.
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I don't want technology to take me so far that I don't have to use my brain anymore. It's like GPS taking over and losing your internal compass. It's always got to be tactile, still organic.
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Contradictions, most of all, a balance between chaos and order. It needs neighborhoods vibrating with energy just as much as cozy little corners and parks; well-tended, middle-class sections as well as an alternative scene; technology centers for innovative youth and social facilities for older people.
