George Lois Quotes
The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. And I really believe that. And what I try to teach young people, or anybody in any creative field, is that every idea should seemingly be outrageous.
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What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations.
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There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.
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Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.
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I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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People love gentle larceny.
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The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running around with a lot on their mind. And you really have to figure out how to build a company that can put on a message that can actually reach people and have an impact globally.
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People wanted Bitcoin to live so much, they basically willed it back into existence. That showed me how passionate this community was about it.
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I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't first have a fundamental agreement on the question of the primacy, that still isn't there.
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I will do everything in my power to ensure that our United Nations can live up to its name, and be truly united; so that we can live up to the hopes that so many people around the world place in this institution, which is unique in the annals of human history.
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The people of the Fifth District of Louisiana need and deserve a voice in Washington.
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People who are making it to 100 live in environments where they are regularly nudged into physical activity.
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I learned how to sing in front of a lot of people and to hone my skills alongside some of the greatest performers of all time.
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People didn't know where they could trade. When everybody owes each other IOUs that can be in multiple places at once, that's how the system couldn't tell any more who owned what and who owed what to whom. Blockchain could have prevented 2008.
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I'm hoping one day to open my own shelter. I would be the person with the three-legged dog. I just love animals more than people; I really do.
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I don't think people understand the power of social media or our phones.
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Zen is the spirit of a man. Zen believes in his inner purity and goodness. Whatever is superadded or violently torn away, injures the wholesomeness of the spirit. Zen, therefore, is emphatically against all religious conventionalism.
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I find writing extraordinarily difficult and not very pleasurable, though I find having done it very pleasurable. I won't lie about that.
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I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.
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The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. And I really believe that. And what I try to teach young people, or anybody in any creative field, is that every idea should seemingly be outrageous.
