John Maeda Quotes
I don't like creating software anymore. It's too exact. It's like karate; there's no room for error.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
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People say, 'Well you know the economy's bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow's money, and other people's money maybe... We Chinese love to save money.
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
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We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also the manner which many of these victims met their deaths.
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I think we always view people who make us feel uncomfortable and appear to intrude on our middle-class cozy space, we view them with, if not hostility, at least suspicion, discomfort, embarrassment.
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Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.
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We had a saying at Blockbuster: 'If you don't come in on Saturday, don't bother coming in on Sunday.' We worked hard.
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It is a grievous sin in the sight of God for any man to presume to baptize, unless God has authorized him by new revelation to baptize in his name.
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Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball.
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The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.
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I could never change the overall feel of my music. That's why people like me - I don't follow trends, and I don't follow crowds.
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I can't imagine ever not making music, making albums, writing songs, doing shows. That's all I really know, and that's all I really do.
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I'm not sure it's the stimulus money that will necessarily allow the economy to recover. It will help to fortify our budgets, frankly, to ensure that there isn't as much backsliding in the areas of education and healthcare, for example.
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Not content with covering one divisive subject today, I've also done a piece about Boris Johnson. It's not blind to his flaws but argues for a bit more nuance in how we see him...
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In my view, using technology too soon is definitely detrimental to education. I have often used the analogy 'it's like wine-tasting for first-graders'. One can be both a strong advocate of first-graders and wine-tasting, but strongly opposed to wine-tasting for first-graders.
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Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.
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I don't like creating software anymore. It's too exact. It's like karate; there's no room for error.
