James Dyson Quotes

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• I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Space
  • Always
  • Warm

• Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Humanity
  • Happiness
  • Ugly

• You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Art
  • You
  • White

• I think a lot of guys who are on the Internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Time
  • Language
  • Internet

• Hit songs are mysterious and slippery beasts; few artists have a lock on them. This means that many people, like me, have become fans of songs rather than fans of artists.

  

  Dan Hill
  • People
  • Fans
  • Songs

• The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Power
  • Always
  • Influence

• What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Love
  • Interesting
  • For Her

• My mom raised me with the idea of doing public service, and I definitely want to go in that direction. But I also want to follow in my dad's entrepreneurial footsteps.

  

  Patrick Schwarzenegger
  • Want
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I live in Hollywood, California. It's absolutely nothing like Absaroka County, Wyoming. For me, it's a great escape and I really enjoy it.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Great
  • Me
  • Enjoy

• We were making new ones the second year. We were in syndication the second year. So we were on Saturday nights, prime time, every morning, and then they put it on Sunday evenings too. So it was all over the place.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Time
  • Morning
  • Year

• I'm too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom's earring in his tongue, who combs his hair with Redi-Whip and has an Ani DiFranco tattoo on his shin, come show me how a computer works.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Mom
  • Computer
  • Tough

• We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Development
  • Weapons
  • Steps

• Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Philosophy
  • Ethics
  • Medicine

• To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Life
  • Live
  • Live Life

• Acting - you're taking someone else's visions and someone else's inspirations, and it's up to you to portray that to everyone watching the film.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Up
  • You
  • Acting

• I am a private human.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Human
  • Private

• At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Life
  • God
  • Different

• The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an autobiography tries to be a full account of a life.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Story
  • Difference

• Sometimes I would want to sink, and then while I was sinking I'd go, "Wait a minute, this isn't what I want to do," and I would calm down while I was sinking and then start rising back to the surface again.

  

  Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
  • Calm
  • Surface
  • Minute

• Everybody in this race is against Obama, okay? So saying you're against Obama, against Obamacare, all the rest, it's all fine, well and good, except it doesn't move you forward.

  

  Ed Rollins
  • Good
  • Rest
  • Race

• I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Want
  • Decisions
  • Option

• I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.

  

  Adrian Edmondson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Waiting

• In South Africa, where HIV-positive children are often shunned, we have an HIV-positive Muppet to teach children to be friendly with children with HIV. But they use local actors. And it's not always a street. Sometimes it's 'Sesame Plaza,' or 'Sesame Tree.'

  

  Joan Ganz Cooney
  • Children
  • Positive
  • Tree

• The Web is fascinating and transformative, but it's an easy, flashy, get-rich-quick option to the hard graft of proper industry.

  

  James Dyson
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