Chris Alexander Quotes
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I don't have any idols, any heroes, nothing, no.
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Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north.
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I enjoyed L.A. because it was nice to be in the sunshine and live in a house with proper wardrobes. I loved the space.
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Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own - and I realized that there was another world.
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The Opposition should be concentrating on opposing the government rather than involving themselves in endless speculation.
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How can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after day?
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No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.
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Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.
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Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few.
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We don't have control over our lives. We just have control over how we take things.
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I wanted to write in you.
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EMDR, in which EMDR had better long-term results than Prozac in treating depression, at least in adult onset trauma.
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Modesty teaches us to speak of the ancients with respect, especially when we are not very familiar with their works. Newton, who knew them practically by heart, had the greatest respect for them, and considered them to be men of genius and superior intelligence who had carried their discoveries in every field much further than we today suspect, judging from what remains of their writings. More ancient writings have been lost than have been preserved, and perhaps our new discoveries are of less value than those that we have lost.
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Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.
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I'm trying not to speculate. A lot of people are speculating wildly about what happened and then in an e-mail you find out it's wrong.
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There’s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. That’s crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they’re doing, you say ‘wow,’ and soon you’re cooking up all sorts of ideas.
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I began in radio in 1997 on a radio show hosted by a now very famous comic, Jamel Debbouze. I would fake call listeners.
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E-mail importance is defined by the receiver, not the sender.
