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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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 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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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've always been a material-based actor. That's what I've done, the choices I've made - like a heat-seeking missile.
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I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.
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It's this idea that success changes you as a person... I've never seen my career that way.
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Every story I do is about people. It's my survival instinct - one person, one story.
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And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food.
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What I'm saying in my books boils down to this: Mine religion for what is good and avoid what is deleterious. Don't condemn people who need it. Be very careful when that need becomes fanatical.
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I am equally fascinated and awed by visiting an Alexander McQueen show as I am looking under a microscope.
