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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As a reporter, I approach every situation knowing that everyone has his or her own agenda. It's not a bad thing; it's just a fact.
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The work my mum does, a lot of it is re-housing homeless people, that's a real job. I play make-believe and dressing up for a living!
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Obama has offered no solutions; his Democratic majority in the Senate has failed to produce a budget in 1,200 days; and they have both obstructed the Republicans' proposed remedies.
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You know, I had the ability like a catalyst to really get everybody hyped up.
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I came away with the idea that respect is really the solution. We need to teach young people to respect authority - particularly, respect the law.
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I don't really love computers.
