Charles Jencks Quotes

It's a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm.

Charles Jencks

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I've been obsessed with seeing life through music. My records, my relationship with records, my relationship with rock stars, everything that surrounds it, has been really one of the only ways that I ever started to understand the world.

Jeff Tweedy

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When I make decisions, it's not based on what the Republican Party does. I'm elected by the 9th congressional district.

Tom Graves

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The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch.

Loretta Lynn

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The stories about the life and teachings of Jesus were mainly told in Greek, the original language of the gospels.

Jay Parini

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The charge frequently leveled against poetry - that it is difficult, obscure, hermetic and whatnot - indicates not the state of poetry but, frankly, the rung of the evolutionary ladder on which society is stuck.

Joseph Brodsky

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I have to be extra careful, but I'm never going to change the way I play.

Diego Costa

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I think interactive television is doomed. It's a dead end.

Brenda Laurel

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I just want people to realize that it doesn't take much to be a good person. Simple things is all it takes.

Brian Ortega

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I have always felt that it's a little artificial to divide the sciences and the arts on college campuses.

Anthony Doerr

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When we set up our kids for failure, we set up our workforce for failure, and we set up our economy for failure. I can't emphasize enough the importance, the absolute importance, of education in achieving long-term economic growth.

Susana Martinez

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There's more to life than movies.

Paul Walker

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I didn't expect to be doing a whole bunch of Amber Browns. And because it was just one book, and the father had moved away, I didn't realize I was going to have to deal more with shared custody, divorce and all those issues.

Paula Danziger

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