John Maeda Quotes
I like stuff designed by dead people. The old designers. They always got it right because they didn't have to grow up with computers. All of the people that made the spoon and the dishes and the vacuum cleaner didn't have microprocessors and stuff. You could do a good design back then.
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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I'm not interested in just beautiful girls and beautiful clothes.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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You realize, no matter how great, books are not shows or movies; each operates on their own different rules. 'Game of Thrones' is no different. Being forced to come up with those scenes on short notice helped how we were viewing the show and forcing it to come into its own.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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I don't do anything by myself. I have a whole crew to get me ready every day.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
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It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.
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Lawmakers misrepresent the facts when they call the manufacturing deduction known as Section 199 - passed by Congress in 2004 to spur domestic job growth - a 'subsidy' for oil and gas firms. The truth is that all U.S. manufacturers, from software producers to filmmakers and coffee roasters, are eligible for this deduction.
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Those who said I'm not an out-and-out goal-scorer are probably right. I always feel I could score more.
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I layer my moisturizers, which makes my complexion so fresh, I can wear less foundation.
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You always see black people complaining about this and that, but you never see me complaining about how slow they work on my plantation.
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If, as the popular saying goes, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, the people who run our public schools fit that description.
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I like stuff designed by dead people. The old designers. They always got it right because they didn't have to grow up with computers. All of the people that made the spoon and the dishes and the vacuum cleaner didn't have microprocessors and stuff. You could do a good design back then.
