Neri Oxman Quotes
I am equally fascinated and awed by visiting an Alexander McQueen show as I am looking under a microscope.
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Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
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As a kid growing up, I put a lot of pressure on myself.
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We're doing unusual records that sound big, have a pop feel, and we're getting better at it.
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The Dutch are a very practical people.
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I love fairy tales because of their haunting beauty and magical strangeness. They are set in worlds where anything can happen. Frogs can be kings, a thicket of brambles can hide a castle where a royal court has lain asleep for a hundred years, a boy can outwit a giant, and a girl can break a curse with nothing but her courage and steadfastness.
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You know in my own area of Waltham Forest, we've had many murders as a result of the gang violence and often innocent bystanders get caught up in it.
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I learned to be a hot-air balloon pilot to take tourists over the Masai Mara Reserve in order to earn some money and finance the work I was doing with my wife, Anne. We were studying the life of a family of lions for more than two years. Taking pictures was a way to capture information we could not put in words.
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I think the whole of people's psychology and where they are in life interests me, and the decisions you make that take you on particular journeys to different places.
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I've made sure I am working hard enough to get that lead and keep it there.
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I have no skills. I'm bad at most things.
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There are more ways of skinning a cat than rubbing its fur the wrong way.
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I didn't go to the cinemas a lot as a kid.
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Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform.
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Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It requires you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which.
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The ways of love are strange and hard: the love you want is always barred; the love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange.
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The urge for retribution depends upon our not seeing the underlying causes of human behavior.
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Sentit enim vis quisque suas quoad possit abuti.cornua nata prius vitulo quam frontibus extent,illis iratus petit atque infestus inurget.
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Love that only which happens to thee and is spun with the thread of thy destiny. For what is more suitable?
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He’d undone all he could. You can be sorry, and you can be forgiven, but you can’t call back the futures that your bad decisions lost. He didn’t need no philosopher to tell him that.
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I realized that everything I had to do I could not do on my own, and so I was almost obliged to put myself in God's hands, to trust in Jesus who - while I wrote my book on him - I felt bound to by an old and more profound friendship.
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My personal time is limited, more so than I wish. However, my wife and I have talked about the fact that there are opportunities right now that won't be there forever. For example, when the Grateful Dead offered me to tour in 2004, my first reaction was to say no, I just can't do it. Then my wife said, "Well, let's rethink this. You don't want to look back down the road and say, I could've done that, but I said no." So, we made it work.
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There's no such thing as a lost cause, or a dead end. Through persistence, attitude, and creativity, there's always an escape route.
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I am equally fascinated and awed by visiting an Alexander McQueen show as I am looking under a microscope.
