Dieter Rams Quotes
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I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.
Forest Whitaker -
It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
Taylor Dye -
If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
Tamsin Greig -
There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.
Samantha Mathis -
My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
Victoria Pendleton -
My sister and I had resolved never to become teachers because the job seemed to demand so much. My mother always seemed to be working. Our dining room table was cluttered with papers waiting to be read and graded.
Randi Weingarten
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I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
Karen Elson -
I think, on a larger note, that filmmakers and studios should start to tuck it in a little bit, because films wouldn't have the pressure they have if the word wasn't out about how expensive they were.
Ted Demme -
I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.
Randeep Hooda -
My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.
Langston Hughes -
If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
Abu Bakr -
Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
Ragnar Frisch
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There's something about sitting face-to-face with an attorney in an office that enables people to come to grips with the very idea of divorce - or to reconsider the idea. Like a number of my colleagues - not all - I offer that preliminary consultation for free.
Laura Wasser -
There are over 1 million refugees in Lebanon, a country of 4 million people. How do we solve that? I have no idea. What's going on, I really don't know.
Rabih Alameddine -
I mix things from my Somali culture and my American side.
Halima Aden -
People come out of the mid-west and go to the Ivy League. I kind of reversed the direction.
E. L. Doctorow -
It would not be amiss for the novice to write the last paragraph of his story first, once a synopsis of the plot has been carefully prepared - as it always should be.
H. P. Lovecraft -
The big question about how people behave is whether they've got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.
Warren Buffett
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You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done.
Barack Obama -
O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
Christopher Marlowe -
Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800.
Kevin McCloud -
I have a tendency to kick it up. I like to rattle the cage.
Lisa Marie Presley -
Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces; for every woman who is not absolutely ugly thinks herself handsome.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield -
All too much of the man-made is ugly, inefficient, depressing chaos.
Dieter Rams