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.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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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.
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God guided me to America and gave me a good job. But he also gave me a heart so I would look back.
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I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf.
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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.
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Hizb ut-Tahrir spearheaded the radicalization of the 1990s and cultivated an atmosphere of anger.
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Scotland is the Canada of England!
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Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
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I think I always have been someone who likes to push at the edges of things, looking for something different.
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I don't have to show that I am working very hard.
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You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.
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If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.
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A tedium that includes only the anticipation of more tedium; the regret, now, of tomorrow regretting having regretted today.
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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.
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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.'
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The only conduct that merits the drastic remedy of impeachment is that which subverts our system of government or renders the president unfit or unable to govern.
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He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.
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I've lived in New York for thirty years now, but I'm a proud Pittsburgher, and home is home. My family's still in Pittsburgh.
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I'm elected. I don't report to any politician. I report to the people. If I had to report to any politician, I'd quit tomorrow. I'm not tall, dark and handsome. They don't vote for me because I look like a movie star. I can't get that vote. People keep voting for me because they like what I do.
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Universal design systems can no longer be dismissed as the irrelevant musings of a small, localized design community. A second modernism has emerged, reinvigorating the utopian search for universal forms that marked the birth of design as a discourse and a discipline nearly a century earlier.
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People follow those who act like leaders, not those who proclaim themselves to be leaders.
