Neri Oxman Quotes
I am inspired by alchemy and all things continuous, uninterrupted, and effortlessly fused into wholes.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.
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All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.
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Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
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I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience.
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I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.
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I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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My comedy isn't about being attractive - it's about how the bar of dumb seems so low right now, and I desperately want to raise the bar of dumb just a tiny bit.
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To me, being worth it means being independent and carving your own path. The L'Oreal woman is worth it because she wants to be.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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Being first lady is a full-time job. Betty Ford worked full time and should have received a salary. Michelle Obama works full time and should be paid.
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I'm obsessed with 'Homeland.' It's not even okay.
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I've always deplored bad heterosexual values that dictate the minute a marriage is over the former partners no longer speak to each other; only straights could be so cruel and inhuman as to reject totally the person with whom they've shared their life for 20 or 30 years.
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I'm not a journalist. I have not gone to school for this.
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If you must get rid of a roach, use mechanical control.
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In the modern era, Jewish sovereignty over the land of our ancestors is a relatively short phenomenon. From the time of the successful Maccabean revolt to the Roman annexation in 63 BC constitutes about 100 years of Jewish rule. Combined with Israel's independence in 1948, this is about 160 years of effective sovereignty.
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I think the end is endless. It's either a big black hole or a big white light or both together. But it's totally meaningless, because even if someone would explain it, I wouldn't understand it.
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After Gmail, if you have AOL, people are like, 'Are you still with this?' What does it matter what e-mail you have?
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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Being homeschooled for half of my life allowed me to choose my own curriculum and find things I really enjoy, and that's kind of inspired me. I've always been intrigued in or interested in the topics I've been covering.
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The person who inspired me the most was a friend of mine, Anita Roddick. I know that Anita wasn't known to be an ardent feminist, but she truly was.
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The many fail: the one succeeds.
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I am inspired by alchemy and all things continuous, uninterrupted, and effortlessly fused into wholes.
