Joshua Prince-Ramus Quotes

'Form follows function' comes with so much baggage. It's a worthless phrase because you'll never take it for what it means.

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• If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Sky
  • Flying
  • Airplane

• I got a divorce, and I felt like I finally started my career. I started making movies and projects that I just really believed in.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Career
  • Movies
  • Divorce

• She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.

  

  W. L. George
  • She
  • Man
  • Educated

• I'm definitely caught up in the Kool-Aid of true-crime stories.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Up
  • True
  • Stories

• We need a new British business bank with a clean balance sheet and an ability to expand lending rapidly to the manufacturers, exporters and high-growth companies that power our economy. Today I can announce we will have one.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Business
  • Power
  • High

• After about 1940, scientists generally stopped looking for elements in nature. Instead, they had to create them by smashing smaller atoms together.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Together
  • Nature
  • Looking

• There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Style
  • Kings
  • Empires

• My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Successful
  • Living
  • Concept

• I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, "No, I'm a Pacino. That's my name." I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she's adjusted so marvelously.

  

  Al Pacino
  • People
  • School
  • She

• The whole motley confusion of acts, omissions, regrets and hopes which is the life of each one of us finds in death, not meaning or explanation, but an end.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Life
  • Death

• Learning is to discover that something is possible. We are using most of our energies for self-destructiv e games, self-preventing games. We prevent ourselves from growing the very moment something unpleasant, something painful comes up. At that moment we become phobic, we run away, we desensitize ourselves. Neurotic suffering is suffering in imagination, suffering in fantasy.

  

  Fritz Perls
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Learning

• I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record.

  

  Robert Falcon Scott
  • Done
  • Fear
  • Journey

• George Carlin is kind of my template now because George Carlin before was straight laced regular comic and he had short hair, a tie, suit, nightclub guy. Then he said screw it, let his hair grow, just started telling what he thought was the truth. So that's what I'm trying to do.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Trying
  • Truth
  • Guy

• I'm privileged, because I have a lot of freedom. I want to use it to make as warm and normal a life as I can for our daughters.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Daughters

• I've never had access to another person's art and work or, particularly, someone who is as prolific and was able to externalize his interior world as deeply as Kurt Cobain could.

  

  Brett Morgen
  • Work
  • Art
  • Access

• All my favorite songwriters are American - Jad Fair, Jonathan Richman and Jeffrey Lewis.

  

  Eddie Argos
  • Favorite
  • Songwriters

• All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Knowledge
  • Human
  • Form

• 'Form follows function' comes with so much baggage. It's a worthless phrase because you'll never take it for what it means.

  

  Joshua Prince-Ramus
  • Form
  • Function
  • Worthless