John Maeda Quotes
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I like being involved with projects that are not only entertaining but are also thought provoking. Either that, or jobs that keep a roof over my head. A mixture of both is always nice.
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I'm a jeans fanatic. It's ridiculous how many jeans I have.
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When I first came into the league, my first three, four years, I had a teammate from college win a Super Bowl.
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'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.
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My mom got 11 kids. We struggled.
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Even if you flippin' fries at McDonald's, if you are excellent, everybody wants to be in your line.
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Managerial discretion can take many forms, some very subtle. Individual managers may run slack operations; they may pursue subgoals that are at variance with corporate purposes; they can engage in self-dealing.
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When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
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A lot of the songs on '2' are pretty personal, but even if I'm writing about something like that, I still tend to keep it pretty simple and open-ended. I like the idea of people listening to my album and it meaning something to me but maybe meaning something else to them.
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There's such an emphasis on having a character be likable. I don't think it would be helpful if I worried about that. I mean, not everyone's likable.
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I felt Brighton was a perfect ending to a really interesting career.
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With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off like white kids trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a great way to distract them was by dressing in red, white and black.
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So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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I studied math, and I was terrible at it.
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Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over world-building.
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You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things.
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I am for gay marriage. Or same-sex marriage. I don't want to say it the wrong way. I think people are sensitive to it. I have been painted as being this right-wing zealot on choice. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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Not to be bound by rules, but to be creating one's own rules-this is the kind of life which Zen is trying to have us live.
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Life found itself alive and somehow knew its opposite was death. We are ever being born, or dying, and the thrill of choosing is ours. Only once, must we be born without our own consent. Only once, must we die without our own permission
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Yeah, I think it motivates you as people start to count you out. It doesn't make you play any harder, because every time you go out on the field you give 110 percent, but it does give you more of an edge mentally, knowing that you were in the same situation, because in sports you always find yourself behind.
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The alumni of Second City from John Belushi to Martin Short have changed my entire life and brought a new kind of comedy to America and the World.
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I don't really love computers.
