Alex Steffen Quotes

Cities are responsible for the vast majority of the creation of the economy. They're also places into which we pour the vast majority of resources, the vast majority of energy and the places where a huge percentage of the decisions about how systems are built and how products designed, etc., happen.

Alex Steffen

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The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

Robert Morgan

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And I'd watch George C. Scott from backstage. He was one of my mentors.

Jeffrey Tambor

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I'm not a parent, but it seems to me the nature of parenting is contingent, full of unexpected challenges - which is one of the wonderful and amazing things about it.

Stacey D'Erasmo

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I live in the moment. The moment is the most important thing. That's my entire philosophy: Make the best of the good moments.

Rita Moreno

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With 'Fate's Right Hand,' I think I reached a level of completeness in forming and articulating ideas at around the same time I reached a place where I could match it with my singing voice. It was a kind of coming together.

Rodney Crowell

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And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you're going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them.

Michelle Obama

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I read an interview where someone said, 'It's a shame that anyone can make a movie now,' and I feel the exact opposite.

Jason Blum

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I had fun doing it, but acting ain't really my thing. I am more of a production/director type. I would rather be behind the scenes and organizing and putting things together like that.

Dr. Dre

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When we started Aftermath, we had something like 20 artists, and it was driving me crazy. I couldn't sit down and focus on any of it. Plus, it was doubly hard because you ended up crushing these people's dreams when you had to let them go.

Dr. Dre

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It's a particularly modern myth that married people are best friends. The best-friend concept is a uniquely female phenomena.

Deborah Tannen

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There's like a shift in the paradigm about every 15 years in movies because one would slip through the cracks. I think if they were more inexpensive you would see many more eclectic comedies being made.

Dax Shepard

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I assume everyone around me is older because they look more responsible.

Armando Iannucci

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