Dieter Rams Quotes
Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That's its role.

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What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
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With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
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When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
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I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.
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Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.
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I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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'Now he's just signed Fall Out Boy, which means more of his attention will go to them that should have gone to The Killers'.
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There are individuals who are working very hard to promote fear and antagonism towards Islam and Muslims in this country. It's fueled, in part, by the first African-American president that we have. Obama's father was a Muslim and people have used this to arouse hostility against him.
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Sometimes you have to put back in the community.
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I'm always interested in a character who does something and doesn't understand why they've done it.
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Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That's its role.