James Dyson Quotes

I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.

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• I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • School
  • High
  • Play

• I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • School
  • Me
  • Wanted

• My grandfather started a school for the underprivileged in Chandigarh, and that is why we moved from Himachal to Chandigarh. It was a small school, where even I would teach while in school.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • School
  • Why
  • Small

• I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.

  

  Nancy Allen
  • Music
  • School
  • Career

• Right when 'High School Musical' was taking off, one of my little cousins called and was really excited to tell me there was a huge 'I Hate Zac Efron' club at her school. I'm sure they're doing great. More power to them.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Great
  • School
  • Power

• As I grew older, I actually was prepared to go into fine arts school and do a degree. That was what I was actually settled upon when I was offered a record deal.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • School
  • Prepared
  • Degree

• Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Black
  • Looks
  • Black-and-white

• Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Life
  • Black
  • Running

• The American school system's a little warped, so anyone can get a degree if they have a little money.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • School
  • Money
  • American

• Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I love to drive in the Black Hills of Wyoming and South Dakota with Mount Rushmore as the central stop.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Love
  • Black
  • Stop

• I'm such a girl because all the guys go for cars because of their engines or something like that. I like the colour and the design.

  

  Nathalie Kelley
  • Girl
  • Design
  • Colour

• So now I feel I'm lucky in the respect that I can sort of pick a little more carefully, which is tricky because as a black actress, there aren't that many roles to pick from.

  

  Rachel True
  • Black
  • Respect
  • Lucky

• There's something really unique about 'Orphan Black' is that it has a lot of female leads, so it's about a lot of women's stories, but it's not women's stories in terms of trying to find a guy or keep a guy; it's about entirely other things.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Guy

• The less I talk about being black, the better.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Black
  • Better
  • Talk

• Basically, I left Northern Telecom after 7.5 years of being in one company after school. And then, I ended up in a series of start-ups. The first of those was a company called Sitech, and they were in local area networks.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Up
  • School
  • Company

• I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Time
  • School
  • Design

• I went to high school in Columbia. I met my first wife, Richards, whom I married while I was working on a B.S. in chemistry at Georgia Tech. She bore Louise, and I studied. I learned most of the useful technical things - math, physics, chemistry - that I now use during those four years.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • School
  • She
  • High

• For me the music community was always like a model for what could be. The way people would play together, just harmony and being - old guys and young guys, black guys and white guys. It was setting an example for what the rest of us could be.

  

  Bill Frisell
  • Together
  • Guy
  • Black

• To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Difficult
  • Loved
  • More

• I've longed for kids since I was very, very young. And so... I'm waiting to find the right person, someone who's willing to take on the job.

  

  Prince Harry
  • Job
  • Kids
  • Waiting

• One of the industries we follow very closely is the trucking industry. They would love if today there was an option for them to run their fleets on natural gas, because of the price disparity between oil and refined diesel - which they almost exclusively run on now - and natural gas.

  

  Warren Stephens
  • Love
  • Today
  • Run

• I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.

  

  James Dyson
  • School
  • Black
  • Design