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.
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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.
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I'm definitely caught up in the Kool-Aid of true-crime stories.
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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.
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There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
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My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I argue that the first image-makers were acting rationally in the specific social circumstances ... they were not driven by ‘aesthetics’.
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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
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I advise students on the subject of color as follows: If it looks good enough to eat, use it.
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By 1951, television had already made such inroads on the income garnered by motion picture companies that the Golden Era which had prevailed until then was beginning to disintegrate. And by 1953, it had come to an end. Hollywood was a dismal, tragic place.
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'Form follows function' comes with so much baggage. It's a worthless phrase because you'll never take it for what it means.
