Neri Oxman Quotes
I don't separate architecture, design, or culture. What's more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
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Little remnants from everywhere I've been are scattered around my home. I collect rocks in a weird way, with stones from around the world as mementos. I've also got three haranas, which are little guitars.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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Modelling wasn't a passion of mine, so that made it get old kind of quickly. I was getting very frustrated.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.
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The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.
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Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.
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I played soccer when I was a kid. I started when I was 8 and played for 8 more years. I was pretty good. I used to train with Atletico Nacional, which is one of the most important teams in Colombia. I used to train every day.
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I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.
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Herbert Hoover failed through no fault of his own. The Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression were beyond his control, and every remedy he tried failed adequately to work.
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I don't spend any time whatsoever thinking about what might have been.
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It's very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input.
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I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.
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The surest way to lose democracy is to take it for granted. Every citizen must contribute to its advancement in some way. No nation or culture can long survive the absence of transcendent values and absolutes.
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Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys.
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I don't separate architecture, design, or culture. What's more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning.
