Neri Oxman Quotes
I often ask myself, 'What would design be like if objects were made of a single part? Would we return to a better state of creation?'
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The gay community is very fickle. And I know because I'm part of it and I see it every day.
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I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.
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As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.
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I do this thing with my daughter - I put my hand on her face and shake her head, but really affectionately. But I didn't think, and I did that to Flea.
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I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.'
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Having fans wherever I go gives me an energy, and it is the source of my power.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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I am into nature and seeing whales. I went whale-watching, and I was really looking forward to that, but when you see it on TV and you see other programs do it, you're seeing close-ups of these massive creatures, and the music that's added gives you a certain feeling.
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Nobody walks this earth thinking he's better than I think I am - I think I'm great. At the same time, it's so obvious to me that I'm nobody.
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I was really scared to stay home alone when I was kid, and I would freak out whenever there was a noise after my parents left.
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When it's all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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I enjoy roles that are quite physical.
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You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.
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People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.
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Christianity affects your whole life. I feel I'm more competitive, a better player, but off the field is where there is always a battle.
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It doesn’t matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serve a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.
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There's a difference between failures and things that are bad.
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I know that I'm capable of moving around on the guitar. I can express myself the way I want to and feel good about it. But as far as technical chops, I'm not a learned musician.
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I seen the worst of the worst. I deserve every blessing I receive I'm from the dirt.
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No one predicted Mercury would be a planetary core with the mantle stripped off. No one predicted volcanoes on the Jovian moons, or oceans on the inside of them. I can tell you, for every single planet, huge 'we never guessed that' things.
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I often ask myself, 'What would design be like if objects were made of a single part? Would we return to a better state of creation?'
