Alex Steffen Quotes

I'm fascinated with design. I realized early that I had no talent in that direction, but I love talking with architects and designers about what they do. I appreciate applied creativity as a source of pleasure and meaning.

Alex Steffen

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LoveCreativityTalentDirection

I'm getting older; you realise you are on the countdown of what you are doing, so performing means more than it ever did to me.

Joe Cocker

Getting OlderMeDoingYouMoreDid

We love the sight of the brown and ruddy earth; it is the color of life, while a snow-covered plain is the face of death. Yet snow is but the mask of the life-giving rain; it, too, is the friend of man, the tender, sculpturesque, immaculate, warming, fertilizing snow.

John Burroughs

LifeLoveFriendSnowRainDeath

Because Tom Doherty and people like that are not stupid. If they could have streamlined their operation more to get more money out of it, they would have done it. It's not like they're a bunch of idiots.

Jerry Pournelle

MoneyPeopleStupidDoneMoreOut

As part of my efforts to fight identity theft, I worked with my colleagues on the Financial Services Committee to strengthen consumer protection with a reasonable notification requirement.

Melissa Bean

FightIdentityColleaguesFinancial

I want to do something original rather than interpret someone else's performance, which is always the risk - even if it's only in a subconscious way. I want to concentrate on giving my own fresh interpretation.

Aneurin Barnard

PerformanceGivingSomeoneWantWay

If we are going to compete in this world we're in today, there is no possible way we can do it with lowering expectations and dumbing down everything. Children are going to suffer, and families' hearts are going to be broken that their kids won't be able to get a job in the 21st Century.

Jeb Bush

TodayChildrenJobBrokenWorldWay

I like pretty conservative guys, good guys. I always look for the qualities I find in my father.

Summer Glau

GoodFatherLookFindConservative

I am still convinced I have the best job in the world.

Sonny Mehta

BestJobI AmWorldStillConvinced

Children with Down Syndrome are not monsters, but uncommonly gentle human beings who can and do lead full lives.

Tucker Carlson

ChildrenDownGentleHumanLeadWho

Children are weird. I was going to say 'most children,' but I think this a rare universal law.

Rumaan Alam

ChildrenLawThinkWeirdSayRare

The team that gets to play to their plan is usually the team that has the most success.

Mike McCarthy

SuccessTeamPlanPlayMostGets

I'm good at disguising my feelings.

Michelle Pfeiffer

GoodFeelings

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