Chip Kidd Quotes
I think too many comic book covers are way too busy, crammed with far too much information, both visual and verbal, that just becomes a dull noise.

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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?
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I feel like we all have our skeletons.
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I enjoy building more than managing.
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I'm not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking everyone's socks off with my joy of traversing the world by foot.
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The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
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I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.
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I love 'The X-Men;' that was the first comic series that I was dedicated to, because I feel like you can pick your player. 'I'm the most like Gambit... or I'm totally a Storm.'
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If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.
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There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
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I was your C student. I paid attention in the classes that were about how to get elected.
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The first information I consume in the morning is probably 'The New York Times' and then my Twitter feed. I think Twitter is a really fascinating, easy way to stay on top of what stories are out there.
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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If there really is a God, then he really looks after me.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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I've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them.
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My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, I'm an independent filmmaker.
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Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell.
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Athol Fugard became famous as a playwright, so although 'Tsotsi' the book was written in the '60s, it was only published in the '80s. It was then optioned pretty much every year by producers. I think the problem was that holding onto its period setting made it very hard to get finance.
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I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to any manly or humane man.
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I think too many comic book covers are way too busy, crammed with far too much information, both visual and verbal, that just becomes a dull noise.