George Lois Quotes
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.
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In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.
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I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
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I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
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I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.
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Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.
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According to our estimates, the Hungarians working in the U.K. altogether pay more contributions and taxes than the benefits that they get. So we belong to the world of the fair working people.
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My childhood was marked by a tension between privilege on the one hand and emotional dysfunction on the other.
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I cannot live anywhere else except India.
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Mr. Burns is a father symbol to me, and you can omit the word symbol.
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Part of the Hong Kong style is the fact that a lot of the performers can perform the moves, and we don't over-rehearse this stuff.
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Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are pretty one-dimensional.
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If you're working, and you're not trying to be great, give up.
