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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When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.
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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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I'm beyond lucky to have fallen in love with my best friend.
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Your victory is right around the corner. Never give up.
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Behavioral economics can explain some things, but it's hard to explain a lot of the underlying processes that generate these decisions, much less some of these unconscious things that we don't have a handle on at all.
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My son loves swords and shields and dragons.
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It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. As Henry Ford said many years earlier: "If I had listened to my customers, I would have built a faster horse." Inventions in general express Shannon entropy. They come from the supply side.
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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?'
