Chris Alexander Quotes

People follow those who act like leaders, not those who proclaim themselves to be leaders.

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• Fashion and interior design are one and the same.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Fashion
  • Design
  • Same

• Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • Art
  • Extraordinary

• The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • People
  • Want
  • Feel

• We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Universe
  • Balance
  • Unknown

• I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Devil

• God guided me to America and gave me a good job. But he also gave me a heart so I would look back.

  

  Manute Bol
  • Good
  • God
  • Heart

• I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Think
  • Golf
  • Beach

• I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • People
  • Family
  • Know

• Hizb ut-Tahrir spearheaded the radicalization of the 1990s and cultivated an atmosphere of anger.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Anger
  • Atmosphere

• Scotland is the Canada of England!

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • England
  • Canada
  • Scotland

• Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Person
  • Talent
  • Genius

• I think I always have been someone who likes to push at the edges of things, looking for something different.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Different
  • Think
  • Always

• I don't have to show that I am working very hard.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Show
  • Working Hard

• You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • You
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Gun

• A tedium that includes only the anticipation of more tedium; the regret, now, of tomorrow regretting having regretted today.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Today
  • Regret

• Whenever the law gets its hands on you, those who use the law to their own advantage will also turn it against you. Don’t put your trust in the laws of men, Alvin. They were designed by strong men to improve their power over weaker ones.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Men
  • Power
  • Strong

• Camped on a tropic riverside,One day he missed his loving bride.She had, the guide informed him later,Been eaten by an alligator.Professor Twist could not but smile.'You mean,' he said, 'a crocodile.'

  

  Ogden Nash
  • She
  • Smile

• Racist people, interestingly, are never as polite as smokers. Have you noticed that? Smokers always go, 'Do you mind if I smoke? Oh, you do? Okay, I'll go outside and have a cigarette.' Racist people never go, 'Do you mind if I'm racist? Oh, I'll go outside … fucking blue people, eh? Coming here, steal our hamsters …'

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Mind
  • Blue

• Discovering that with every child, your heart grows bigger and stronger - that there is no limit to how much or how many people you can love, even though at times you feel as though you could burst - you don't - you just love even more.

  

  Yasmin Le Bon
  • People
  • Heart

• I'm honored to be asked by Stephanie Allain - whom I've long admired - to add to the scope of my programming purview at Film Independent. I salute David Ansen for his work with the festival and look forward to continuing to follow his example.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Work
  • Long
  • Independent

• When I go to Atlanta, I'm famous. I can get on a flight, anything. Because they're watching every show, and if you're black, you famous.

  

  Bresha Webb
  • Black
  • Famous

• I always had to keep improving my skills in order to remain competitive and keep winning.

  

  Edwin Moses
  • Winning

• People follow those who act like leaders, not those who proclaim themselves to be leaders.

  

  Chris Alexander
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