Neri Oxman Quotes
Rarely do we see immediate use of innovative technologies. I believe that the future is built by small pieces that add up.
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
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It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
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The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.
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My most joy that I have is dancing.
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Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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I founded Camellia Network with my dear friend Isis Dallis Keigwin. The mission of our organization is to create a national network that connects every youth aging out of foster care to the critical resources, opportunities, and support they need to thrive in adulthood.
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Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.
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That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
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Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
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We have overcome some terrible blows to our democracy, to the future of our democracy, to the future of our nation. We survived the Civil War and the strife that tore this nation apart.
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The danger in a brood mare band is that your mares become antiquated, and you wake up some day and realize that the average age of your band is 15 or 16 and that in another year they won't be producing offspring. I think the ideal average age for a brood mare band is about 10.
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I'm really scared of flying. Like, really, really, really scared.
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The very quality of books to read and facts to master with which the twentieth-century man is confronted encourages him to think broadly and superficially about much, but hinders him from thinking deeply and thoroughly about anything.
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Less than a year after loading the company up with debt, Romney and Bain gave themselves bonuses four times bigger than the $8 million they had put into the deal.
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As soon as I have the script in my hand, I'll be up in my apartment room pacing up and down learning it because it's just such a lovely thing to do.
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The very best testament to the validity of the Warren Commission's findings is that after an unrelenting, close to forty-five-year effort, the Commission's fiercest critics have not been able to produce any new credible evidence that would in any way justify a different conclusion.
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Rarely do we see immediate use of innovative technologies. I believe that the future is built by small pieces that add up.
