Neri Oxman Quotes
I object to the hegemony of form in contemporary architecture. We have very advanced technological tools, but ultimately, we create buildings exactly like we used to before: We send the drawings to an engineer and let him struggle with figuring out how to build it.
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If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.
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Geffen was never supportive of the band.
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I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
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I didn't get a phone call from Bill Clinton before I jumped in the race ... maybe it's because I hadn't given money to the foundation or donated to his wife's senate race.
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When I left my home to become an actress, my father didn't give me a single penny. I struggled a lot, and they had no idea what I went through. My grandfather even asked me to drop my surname when he learnt I was joining films.
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Politics won't allow for the truth.
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We want a money that some government mandarin can't just whisk into existence with a pen stroke.
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When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.
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Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.
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When you're 18, 19, you think you know everything, but you have no clue about anything.
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I'm probably wouldn't do anything differently if I had to do it again. Every little thing that happens to you, good and bad, becomes a little piece of the puzzle of who you become. Every successful person you read about - Warren Buffett, Bill Gates - they all say pretty much the same thing. 'Do what you love.' I know I did.
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Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.
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I could see when I was filming '21' that it was going to go a direction I wasn't comfortable with it going.
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You become what you think about most of the time.
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The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.
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I object to the hegemony of form in contemporary architecture. We have very advanced technological tools, but ultimately, we create buildings exactly like we used to before: We send the drawings to an engineer and let him struggle with figuring out how to build it.
