Kevin McCloud Quotes
I'm terribly fastidious. I like symmetry and neatness, but my house is as chaotic as any other family's.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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I know what my comfort zones are. But without a back-up, I will never step out of my comfort zone. I don't go bungee jumping; I won't jump from the third floor without a safety net. I don't do such things. That's not my personality type.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.
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I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.
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It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.
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Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.
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My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.
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'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
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I get a lot of people telling me that I'd make a good 'wacky neighbor.' I wouldn't mind that, if it was a starting-off point.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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Golf was my vehicle to competition, and I can't play if I can't compete.
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Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's education budget. Thousands of teachers have been pulled from classrooms, schools have closed and valuable programs have been canceled. In many places, districts are forced to choose between prekindergarten programs and English, algebra and art.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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I don't like family stories forcefully mixed with commercial elements.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning.
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The error of Socrates must be attributed to the false notion of unity from which he starts. Unity there should be, both of the family and of the state, but in some respects only. For there is a point at which a state may attain such a degree of unity as to be no longer a state, or at which, without actually ceasing to exist, it will become an inferior state, like harmony passing into unison, or rhythm which has been reduced to a single foot. The state, as I was saying, is a plurality which should be united and made into a community by education.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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'Let us leave tomorrow’s trouble for the One who bore our troubles on the cross.'
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At 99 and after a long stay in a nursing home, the death of legendary photographer Eve Arnold was hardly a surprise - though she may have been just a little annoyed to quit a few months short of 100.
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In the ancient world, taxes were paid in kind: landowners paid in crops or livestock; the landless paid with their labor. Taxing trade made medieval monarchs rich and funded the early-modern state.
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I'm terribly fastidious. I like symmetry and neatness, but my house is as chaotic as any other family's.
