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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Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.
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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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The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.
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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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One does not become an atheist out of a desire for hassle-free Sunday mornings. People come to atheism because they have a problem with organized religion - usually a problem they consider to be of moral urgency.
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As a songwriter, you always look for guys that you can write good with. Show up, have an idea, knock it out of the park.
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Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
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The characteristic of the really great writer is the ability of his mind to to suddenly leap beyond his ordinary human values, into sudden perception of universal values.
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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.
