Charles Jencks Quotes

If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity.

Charles Jencks

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The downside to becoming a doctor, I think, is it's a very long process; four years of medical school, three years of internship, two years of residency, umpteen years of specialization, and then finally you get to be what you have trained almost all your life for.

Jim Lee

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When I look back on my life, I overpaid for my big successes every time. And when I tried to get a bargain, get it a little cheaper or get a better deal on it, I ended up usually either getting it and not happy I got it. Or missing it.

Jerry Jones

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When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I've always felt okay in Berlin.

Mel Brooks

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Leaders should not just talk about - but walk the walk of - fiscal conservatism.

Michael Enzi

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The team came together. We're looking forward to the next race.

John Surtees

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For me, New York is home because that's where I'm from.

Amy Heckerling

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The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.

Stephen Gardiner

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I think the language of sacrifice is particularly important for societies like the United States in which war remains our most determinative common experience, because states like the United States depend on the story of our wars for our ability to narrate our history as a unified story.

Stanley Hauerwas

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It's important to stay current and fresh.

Luis Fonsi

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This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

Lord Byron

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Among the many problems with taking the Bible literally is it reduces the most mysterious and complex of realities to simple - even simplistic - terms. Yes, scripture speaks of fire and damnation and eternal bliss, but the Bible is the product of human hands and hearts, and much of the imagery is allegorical, not meteorological.

Jon Meacham

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I usually have a 13-hour workday. But at times, we get lucky when we wind up in 8 or 10 hours.

Divyanka Tripathi

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