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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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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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 …'
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I think surprises make TV entertaining.
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People think of faith as being something that you don't really believe, a device in helping you believe simply it. Of course that is quite wrong. As Pascal says, faith is a gift of God. It is different from the proof of it. It is the kind of faith God himself places in the heart, of which the proof is often the instrument... He says of it, too, that it is the heart which is aware of God, and not reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not be reason.
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We have a responsibility as elected officials to do good public policy in the best interest of all the people.
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Philanthropy has become simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.
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A better world could be brought about only by better individuals.
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People follow those who act like leaders, not those who proclaim themselves to be leaders.
