Rafael Moneo Quotes
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The role of designers and product makers is to really become much better editors. What kind of functionality is actually needed - and truly delightful - to consumers? Remove all the extraneous stuff.
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My fiance likes drawing on napkins, which I save. I'm always scared I'll get caught taking a linen napkin from a restaurant!
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There is perhaps no better way to appreciate the dizzying stupidity of the United States than to chat with 25 consecutive morning radio hosts.
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I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
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But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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When people first meet me, they're always like, 'What are you?' as far as ethnicity. And I've been pegged as 'ethnically ambiguous.'
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I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.
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Since Madonna is positioned as always 'cooler than thou,' we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss.
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I always wanted to be a singer, and so, when I was 5 years old, I started acting classes so I could be a better performer. I wanted to have a powerful voice so I could be heard.
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I've always had a strong start, but the start in boardercross is so important. And if you're not getting better, you're getting worse.
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I lived near Arthur's Seat when I lived in Edinburgh. It was the perfect playground as a child. I always have a wee run up there when I'm back.
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Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets. We need to question technology to insure that markets continue to perform their fundamental purposes.
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My hands were constantly blistered or bloody; my ears were always ringing. I tore through drumheads and drumsticks like there was no tomorrow.
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Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.
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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
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We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.
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You don't usually get treated unfairly. You usually get what you deserve.
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It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.
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I would like people to know me for who I am, especially since I think people have a very skewed image of me. I was playing a lot of cute characters, a lot of little girls; I was objectified. And I don't want people to think of me as that because it's not who I am, and because I've seen a lot of hostility towards that image.
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I feel like the so-called bad guys are never totally bad. I guess it's the closest thing I can do to reality: people act nice but nobody really is nice. We all have to balance that with something dark.
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Buildings are always better than drawings and models.
