Witold Rybczynski Quotes
There are scores of books offering 'solutions' to sprawl. Their authors would do well to read this book.
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I was in 'Goodwin Games,' which was canceled, and a few other things, so I kind of swore off television unless I was writing or producing it.
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What's happened is that the digital age has made photography more accessible to people. Everyone is a photographer. But to do it [photography] at a certain level, well, there's a skill to it. Still, it's a good time for photography now.
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Every time I come to Auburn it's nothing but love.
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Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources.
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The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air.
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If anybody comes into my home and tries to hurt my kids, I've no problem shooting them.
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Pranayama teaches the aspirant to regulate his breathing and thereby control the mind.
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I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into a picture. Green rules it. A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.
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To be early is to be on time, to be on time is to be late, to be late is to be forgotten.
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The best way to succeed in this world is to act on the advice you give to others.
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I'd often wondered what would I do if I were ever traded, because it happened many, many times.
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There are ten commandments, I've only broken three.
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I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it's all about status and bling now, and it doesn't say anything to me.
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I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And when a good business partner supports them from the side, it creates great synergy. When someone's trying to do both, I think the music gets bad and the business gets bad, too.
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Like a lot of people, I read 'The Diary of Anne Frank' again and again and again when I was growing up - I'm still completely felled by what an astounding book it is. And as a teenager, I did a lot of reading about concentration camps and the vast horrors of the war.
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I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while.
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Good teams don't care about who scores. Good teams just care about scoring; they don't care who does it.
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There's no guarantee that the United States will be around 200 years from now.
