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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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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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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I personally have a pretty open philosophy about trying to talk to the press, and so does Dan Bartlett.
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Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
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I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.
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I didn't want my daughter to feel culturally isolated in the pursuit of her studies as I had as a young girl. I didn't want her to give up on her passions just because she didn't see anyone else like her in the classroom.
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This is a universal, unique movie, it has potential to cross barriers. But we never thought about that on set, when we were doing the film. We knew that in making a silent movie, we were doing something a little bit under the wire, a bit interdit. It's a pastiche, but for the French taste, you would have thought.
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Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.
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Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That's its role.
