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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For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum.
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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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So many people counted on me to be the party, I had to move far enough away that they wouldn't want to drive there.
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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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Ever since I was a child, I've kept boxes and drawers and pages of things that I liked. I suppose that it constitutes a journal of sorts, but it's not in a ledger or a notebook.
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Over the years, the Beatles themselves have incorporated so much fantasy into their own stories that its hard to know what really happened. Theres still so much to know.
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How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.
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I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.
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When you know more, you can do more.
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I don't really love computers.
