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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.
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I don't think I can ever write about young kids anymore. I completely shot my wad there.
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Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about control and solo effort, and I resent the way the business aspects interfere with my space for creative writing.
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It's hard for me to reconcile that someone doesn't know that they have steroids in their body. I'm extraordinarily skeptical
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It was like discovering a complete wine-filled cellar filled with bottles of an amazing wine of a kind and flavor never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me….
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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.
