Neri Oxman Quotes
A great dream of mine would be to run a design studio full of scientists who think about science as creatively as if they were doing art.
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Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
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It's great to have female characters that have depth that you can explore instead of being the decoration or the girlfriend or the wife.
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I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him.
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We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
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I'm such a girl because all the guys go for cars because of their engines or something like that. I like the colour and the design.
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I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.
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Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.
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Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.
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Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
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I have two or three guys that I'm really close to. We have a great friendship, and I think that helps our songwriting relationship. It's hard to start... with new people and cover the ground that I've covered with those guys.
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But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.
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To have someone like Clint Eastwood come along and shoot your first draft as written is just any screenwriter's dream. And Clint is very straightforward. If it's good enough to get his attention, it's good enough to produce.
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I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. It's the most radical thing.
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The consolations of the vulgar are bitter in the royal ear. Let physicians and confectioners and servants in the great houses be judged by what they have done, and even by what they have meant to do; the great people themselves are judged by what they are. I have been told that lions, trapped and shut up in cages, grieve from shame more than from hunger.
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Voters tend to reject overreach and distraction - women in particular.
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I have a gift: I'm very lucky to be able to spot when a person is special.
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Your life is the sum total of all your choices up to this present minute.
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Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference.
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A great dream of mine would be to run a design studio full of scientists who think about science as creatively as if they were doing art.
