Dieter Rams Quotes
Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I stay true to myself, my daughter. I just remember where I came from - I remember what I'm coming from - and then I remember why I do what I do.
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I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
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I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'
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At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.
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Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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I have never acted in one and I'm not at all interested to do so either.
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I was aiming for the cooks that I've talked to by teaching an online course and by traveling, listening to people who are really busy and harried but want to be cooking.
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One of the skills you have to master in theater is the ability to make the audience believe that things that aren't there are there - just like when you're acting against CGI. Also, in a theater, the people in the back row can't see the whites of your eyes. Or your lips moving as you deliver dialogue.
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A lot of people in Nashville think that the best song is the catchiest or the one that sells the most copies. They're editing songs in a way that make them seem more consumable, I guess. I'm trying to edit them in a way that makes them more honest.
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If you don't have a tonne of optimism, you're not going to make it... you won't be able to evangelise to everyone else. On the other hand, if you aren't constantly paranoid about what can go wrong and put plans in place, then you're going to get bitten at some point.
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I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could make me feel so good.
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Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.
