Deborah Tall famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I read the landscape to help me through, to know what's come before me there, to find my footing in time.
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The extent and condition of our property, and our choice of style in dwelling, create a powerful emblem of our identity and status.
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Individualism and mobility are at the core of American identity
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In choosing where to live or vacation, we may be setting the stage for the play of ourselves, treating nature as prop.
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We are so habitually nostalgic by now that we anticipate looking back in the midst of enjoyment, look forward to watching the videos we're taking of our children even as we make them.
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How do we accurately evoke land we love? What should we even call the world we walk and drive through-scenery, landscape?
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Home is where we know - and are known - through accumulated experience.
-- Deborah Tall
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We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.
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Every actor has his own identity. I don't aspire to be Bond. My quest is to do something new, something different.
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A secure pluralistic society requires communities that are educated and confident both in the identity and depth of their own traditions and in those of their neighbours.
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A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.
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What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of the canvas, and enlarge it and enlarge it until it became like a landscape.
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Historically, China is not a nation of sportsmen. We traditionally put more emphasis on being close to nature than pushing endlessly to excel. A philosophy that values tranquil contemplation of the landscape cannot easily be adapted to the Olympic slogan of 'higher, stronger, faster.'
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The new social landscape is rich with emotion.
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He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.
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Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.
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Nothing is stronger than gentleness.
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