Jenova Chen Quotes
'Cloud' and 'Flower' are very much egocentric about my own expression. 'Flow' is more utilitarian, and 'Journey' is more about collaboration between various creative voices in the team.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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Mister Cee's a legend, man.
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I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.
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I get bored easily.
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Because I'm a designer, I'm quite good when I shop. I know what I'm looking for.
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Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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If it hadn't worked out professionally, I would be teaching music theory and composition in a small college somewhere and playing drums in a jazz trio at the Holiday Inn on weekends, and I'd be happy there, too.
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When I'm on Faro, I'm never lonely.
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That's what the sari is about. Everything is covered, yet a peep of an ankle can be a turn on for men.
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Investors are right to demand a clear path to self-sustainability from every business they invest in, and I believe we should ask for the same from philanthropy.
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All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
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What you discover when you look at creativity from the perspective of the brain is that it is universal. We're all creative all of the time, we can't help but be creative.
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Look, if you take the best batting team in the world, they too will have their weaknesses - otherwise, wouldn't they win all the time? You mention any team to me, and I will pick out for you a dozen weaknesses. But that is not the point - these things, like fielding, running between wickets, all these are technical things, they can be learnt and practised.
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She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
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I don't get a chance to be home much.
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'Cloud' and 'Flower' are very much egocentric about my own expression. 'Flow' is more utilitarian, and 'Journey' is more about collaboration between various creative voices in the team.
