John Maeda Quotes
A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I do think that tonal element of Trump's is attractive, but I don't know if I would go so far as to say the confrontational element of his rhetoric is necessarily attractive.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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On a personal level, I love the idea of hosting an awards show. I think that sounds like kind of a fun thing to do.
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Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
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I love diving into different skins, skins that make me feel deep emotions.
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I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
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I'm a guy who loves my family, and we're probably only going to have a couple of more babies. I have the rest of my life to play the British Open.
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I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new generation being the media focus. I'm happy my day is done. It's over.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
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It's very frightening when you're told you have any form of the c-word, but because of early detection, they caught it before it had hardly begun. I'm completely cured and will go on to have a wonderful, fruitful life. I'll never die of prostate cancer.
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Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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Greening the globalised manufacturing and sourcing will be the single biggest help multinationals could make to the tough pollution control in China and other developing countries.
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By the time I'm 40, the hope is that I'll be solidly in daytime television and producing the various other experts we've brought along the way.
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We crime novelists have a great pulpit. We write about justice and about correcting injustice.
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Making movies is about control. You need to control your narcissism in the first place, and you need to be disciplined enough to understand the reason for the film. You need to follow the agenda of the film, not a personal agenda or that of the studio. Or, worst of all, of the actors.
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In my Philly neighborhood, black and white kids hung together without even thinking about it. The spirit of Martin Luther King was alive and well.
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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
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A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.
