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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Children do not really need money. After all, they don't have to pay rent or send mailgrams.
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The promises of God are His guarantees amid life's uncertainties. They're the basis of all our life of faith.
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I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.
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Her work, I really think her work is finding what her real work is and doing it, her work, her own work, her being human, her being in the world.
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The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
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I am equally fascinated and awed by visiting an Alexander McQueen show as I am looking under a microscope.
