George Lois Quotes
Nothing great can come of more than three people in a room. If you had 10 incredibly bright people, nothing would come out of it.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
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I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
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I definitely want to come back to Cleveland. The coaches, the team, everything about the situation, it's perfect for me.
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I was born free.
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When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons.
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"Softly, softly, catchee monkey," is the West African rendering of a very valuable precept. An awful lot of men fail through lack of patient persistence.
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I feel like, when you turn on the radio and you hear a great song, you know it's a great song, and you sing along. We all know what a great song sounds like, so we all have that instinct, it's just being able to accept your own instincts when you write that song.
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People are always telling me to shut up about Chicago.
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Look, you've got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of supporting the causes that they care about or changing the world. And these people are not going to do it the way our parents do it.
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Nothing great can come of more than three people in a room. If you had 10 incredibly bright people, nothing would come out of it.
