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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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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(Japanese Government believes that if you have a big laboratory with all the latest equipment and good funding it will automatically lead to creativity. It doesn't work that way.
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On my 14th birthday, my grandfather and my grandmother gave me the best birthday present ever: a drafting table that I have worked on ever since.
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I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.
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You stink like a faerie, all flowers and sunshine and evil manipulation.
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'Cougar' has become so distasteful. I really hate that expression.
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By withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, the U.S. cedes power and influence to our rivals. If we retreat on our promises and cede leadership on climate issues, we lose credibility. Further, we lose the ability to hold other countries accountable for a broader range of issues.
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I am equally fascinated and awed by visiting an Alexander McQueen show as I am looking under a microscope.
