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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I'm not an artist that strays away from my fans. Nah, everybody is open to come and talk to me respectfully and I'm going to give them the same respect.
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Basically, right before college I got into the Guinness book for my feet and started to do local commercials and little radio spots, just little things and found I really liked it.
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I've had every haircut you could possibly imagine: mullet, tail, dreadlocks, afro, crew cut. It's always been an expression of who I am.
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I work on a TV show I love, I have the opportunity to do movies with actors I respect, and I’m in love with the man I want to spend the rest of my life with, who pushes me and excites me...There’s this fighter in me that kind of needs to be put to rest a little bit. I don’t need to be so tough to protect myself.
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I used to call my grandmother 'Nana,' so that seems right to me, but maybe I'll just be 'Jade', in that modern way.
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I don't really love computers.
