Patrick Geddes Quotes
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.
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My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.
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I'm one of those pesky Brits.
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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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When you cross over on fandoms, people don't know what to do with themselves.
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It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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The Republican Party is the Grand Old Party. It's made enormous contributions to the success of our country. And it is a party that has embraced its leadership role when it has had the majority or the White House.
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This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.
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In exasperation, I furiously attacked the floors and walls of the Moscow Theater. My mural paintings sight there, in obscurity. Have you seen them? Rant and rave, my contemporaries! In one way or another, my first theatrical alphabet gave you a belly-ache. Not modest? I'll leave that to my grandmother: it bores me. Despise me, if you like. (ca. 1921)
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You just never know how back injuries are going to affect you.
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I talk to the universe all the time.
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I've been offered a few professional contracts... in the hundreds and thousands.
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I've long believed alas, that in highly organized industrial societies, capitalist or socialist, the stronger tendency is to converge - that if steel or automobiles are wanted and must be made on a large scale, the process will stamp its imprint on the society, whether that me be Magnitogorsk or Gary, Indiana.
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But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
