Neri Oxman Quotes
Forms in nature are a byproduct of a reciprocal action between a given material and the conditions of the environment. But in architecture, the process is the direct opposite: First you decide on the form, and then you think how to build it in reality.
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I'm about a 160, 170 bowler so I feel like I'm pretty good - I'm average, but I don't stink, you know?
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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Let us work toward greater cooperation with all Caribbean Countries, whether we speak English, Dutch, French or Spanish, whether we are independent or not, and whether we be island or continental territories.
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Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.
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If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.
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Wittiness turns me on more than anything else.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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People used to think of me as a comedy actor.
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Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.
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To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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My motto is more, 'If you want to find something new, look for something new!' There is a certain amount of risk in this attitude, as even the slightest failure tends to be resounding, but you are so happy when you succeed that it is worth taking the risk.
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Glamorized... am I glamorous?
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.
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It's the same girl-who-has-everything story. You know, the one where she's insecure and scared and unhappy and has marriage problems and doesn't know how to handle stardom and screws up right and left and gets in with the wrong people and goes down the drain.
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There would be no difficulty in securing the rights of the people and the liberties of Texas if men would march to their duty and not fly like recreants from danger. Texas must be defended and liberty maintained.
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Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.
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As I kid, I was always jealous of the music that my favorite bands had written - but not really of how they played. So I'd daydream about having written songs, and this way above being able to perform them.
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Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
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Dreams are never just dreams, they are reality waiting to happen.
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Forms in nature are a byproduct of a reciprocal action between a given material and the conditions of the environment. But in architecture, the process is the direct opposite: First you decide on the form, and then you think how to build it in reality.
