Neri Oxman Quotes

I don't think I would have made for a good doctor. It was not meant to be, and it took me a long time to realize that.

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• It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Culture
  • Books
  • Hip Hop

• I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Never
  • Underestimate

• I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.

  

  Kanye West
  • Family
  • Black
  • Hate

• It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Value
  • Logic
  • Evidence

• In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Society
  • Doing
  • Back

• Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Future

• People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • People
  • World
  • Water

• Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, 'Hey, you're in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you're in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don't want frank assessments.' I think the opposite is the case.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • People
  • Think
  • Environment

• Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Best
  • Guilty
  • Discovery

• Whenever I have tried to write for other people, that's when my writing has failed, when nobody wanted to read it or buy it. But it's only when I've been able to write a story that makes me excited, only then have other people wanted to read it.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • People
  • Writing
  • Story

• Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Time
  • Book
  • Movie

• When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Think
  • Light
  • Wise

• As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Justice
  • Understand
  • Provide

• My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.

  

  Jacob Dalton
  • She
  • Me
  • Mom

• In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Simple

• Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • People
  • Society
  • Gender

• There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it – I want it!' My mom will always talk me down.

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • Want
  • Me
  • Mom

• As President Obama clearly said just a few months ago, China must play by the international rules, the international trading system from which they've benefited so much.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Play
  • Said
  • Rules

• Here in Spain, there are Argentine Jews, children and grandchildren of immigrants of Jews who fled Germany or Austria in the thirties, and in the seventies during the dictatorship, they had to go into exile again.

  

  Antonio Munoz Molina
  • Children
  • Grandchildren

• Equity is the cushion that protects financial institutions from unexpected changes in the value of their assets. The greater the leverage, the smaller the losses required to wipe out a company's equity, leaving it without enough money to repay the people who hold its debt.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • People
  • Money
  • Value

• The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air.

  

  Louis XVIII of France
  • Air
  • English
  • Sea

• First grade is very cheap. It's the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don't do it right.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Money
  • Grades

• I don't think I would have made for a good doctor. It was not meant to be, and it took me a long time to realize that.

  

  Neri Oxman
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