Kevin McCloud Quotes
I don't enjoy living in a white box flooded with light. I like shadows, small spaces, old furniture.
Quotes to Explore
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The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it.
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I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.
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The last episode of Dallas was in '1991.' Unfortunately, it was a terrible episode to end the show on: it was a sort of 'It's a Wonderful Life' with Larry as the Jimmy Stewart character. In that episode, I was an ineffectual-schlep kind of brother, who got divorced three or four times and was a Las Vegas reject.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.
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I graduated with an English degree and worked for awhile in academic publishing.
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Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
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Oddly, a search for 'jeggings' in my email inbox shows that my first exposure to the phenomenon came from - wait for it - Mike Allen of 'Politico,' who helpfully explained the concept on December 20, 2009.
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Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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Going vegetarian - and then vegan - has calmed me down, and it has also made me physically and emotionally strong. I do crave meat once in a while, but I find that spiritually, non-vegetarian food works against my emotional health.
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In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.
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There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.
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If we make people believe that before the age of 16 they got sick drinking vodka, they don't want to drink as much vodka.
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Small bodies, about half a micron in diameter, and later referred to under the name of 'mitochondria' were detected under the light microscope as early as 1894.
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I had no clue about taxes at all. I didn't know they hit your paycheck. There's something that you've always got to put money away for. I didn't know you've got to put money away for it, even though it's coming out your own money. It's like, 'What the heck?'
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I think the art world will continue to be a place where people have a certain freedom and creativity to think about what's happening in Cuba.
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I don't enjoy living in a white box flooded with light. I like shadows, small spaces, old furniture.
