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Christopher Alexander Quotes

In an organic environment, every place is unique, and the different places also cooperate, with no parts left over, to create a global whole - a whole which can be identified by everyone who is part of it.

Christopher Alexander

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: architect
Nationality: american
Birth: October 4, 1936

Topics

Environment Unique Place Create Over

I can't say I love football anymore.

Ann McKee

Love Football Say Anymore I Love

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Andy Warhol

Good Business Art Best Money Kind

He was a very generous soul and was exceptionally dedicated to the medium of photography.

John Sexton

Soul Photography Generous Dedicated

In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to Internet gambling become addicted.

Spencer Bachus

Internet Gambling Three Become Study

You can make something out of every unfinished story and every rejection if you work at it.

Tomi Adeyemi

Work Story Rejection You Out Make

In high school, I started saving up to get a nose job, which is so ridiculous. I had this job at Tim Hortons, and I was trying to save up $10,000 for a nose job.

Rupi Kaur

Job School High School Trying High

I find this in all these places I've been travelling - from India to China, to Japan and Europe and to Brazil - there is a frustration with the terms of public discourse, with a kind of absence of discussion of questions of justice and ethics and of values.

Michael Sandel

Justice Ethics Frustration Questions

Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around.

Michael Stipe

Never Eat Broccoli Around Cameras

Everyone has always underestimated a company headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. The New York boys thought they could take me on, that nobody out here has any knowledge or wisdom.

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

Wisdom Knowledge New York City Me

I have these songs that I've been playing for so many years. They're so intimate and close to me. And these are songs that probably a major label would not be interested in - some of them, anyway - interested in putting on a record.

Chris Carmack

Me Years Playing Been Would Songs

My thesis at school was on Wordsworth.

Alice Eve

School Thesis Wordsworth

For me, each film, each script is like a little journey in itself, and I'm reinventing the wheel. It's like, 'How do I make this film?' That's part of the pleasure, and that's why I'm not a normal professional director.

Pawel Pawlikowski

Journey Me Professional Wheel Why