Neri Oxman Quotes
I'm not a mother of children, but I'm a different type of mother where my approach to design is more in line with nature. It's less about dictating and more about editing and listening and allowing something to grow. So I nourish and let the material express what it wants to be.
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.
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Every time I touch the ball, I think I'm going to go all the way. I think I'm going to score a touchdown. I'm the runner I am because I think that I'm going to go all the way every single time I touch the ball.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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As a kid growing up, I wanted the Allen Iverson shoes that came out, the Questions. My dad got them for me, so I was excited about that.
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The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
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After Madrid, we intensified our investigative efforts once again, and we are in the process of bringing about expansions in security laws and creating an index file system.
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I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!
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This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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Don't Cry Daddy is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word.
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There are times when we look back and think, 'Do you remember when we had to lug a piano downstairs to a basement of some venue to play for five people?' We do a lot of reminiscing. It helps us keep our heads on straight.
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I like 'Paris is Burning' by Jennie Livington.
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Everybody would like to be on the cover of 'Vogue.'
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I keep saying to myself, 'I'm in New York.' I've heard so much about it. It's big, isn't it?
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I'm not a mother of children, but I'm a different type of mother where my approach to design is more in line with nature. It's less about dictating and more about editing and listening and allowing something to grow. So I nourish and let the material express what it wants to be.
