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Charles Jencks Quotes

A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because they hate placebos, but scientifically, placebos work in about 30% of cases that are psychogenic diseases.

Charles Jencks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: architect
Nationality: american
Birth: June 21, 1939

Topics

Work Hate Medical Teeth Hard Get

If people want bells and whistles and all of that, there are bells and whistles available. If they don't want bells and whistles there are places to go where they are not available.

Jim Lehrer

People Go Want Places Where Bells

I became a children's author by accident.

Jerry Spinelli

Children Accident Author Became

I think Maine needs people. It needs diversity. It needs to be able to respect people. Openness is crucial for this state because we don't want to be known for having the oldest state in the nation. We want young families.

John Baldacci

Respect Diversity People Think Young

My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end.

John Barton

Time New Things Poetry Me End New

Liberace was one of the biggest stars in America. He was a kind of a phenomenon.

Michael Douglas

Stars America Kind He Biggest

In 1983, most Nicaraguans had still not fallen to the depths of deprivation and despair which they would reach in later years, but many were already unhappy and restive.

Stephen Kinzer

Reach Unhappy Years Despair Would

It's been a roller-coaster ride. But I haven't been diving this well for a while.

Troy Dumais

Ride Well Been Roller-Coaster While

To me, it doesn't matter who you are or where you're from - if you're a good person and you got my back, I got yours.

Rita Ora

Good Me Good Person You Back Person

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

Ronald Reagan

God Faith Defeated Never Up Give

I like my kind of innate and natural ability in the pocket, and ability of anticipation, and all that stuff that's important when it comes to playing quarterback.

Jared Goff

Important Kind Anticipation Ability

I'm not a Casanova in 'The Newsroom,' by the way - just another hard worker.

Dev Patel

Way Hard Just Hard Worker Newsroom

I am always looking for ideas, whether it is in art on the street or in my world travels. It comes to me randomly and unexpectedly.

Colleen Atwood

Art I Am Me Ideas World Looking