Michael Arad Quotes

How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?

Michael Arad

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• As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • People
  • Believe
  • Children

• I needed to take a break from performing, and from the Peas, to be happy. I craved female time, and time with my husband to feed my soul. My life now is about being balanced. I'm passionate about work and working out, seeing friends and family, and letting my hair down once in a while.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Work
  • Family
  • Soul

• The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Mother
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • You
  • Things
  • Influence

• I'm an emotional guy.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Guy
  • Emotional

• Really smart people don't want to say stupid things, and they really don't want to be a part of a PR-engineered interview. People really do want to be smart, and they want smart questions. So, if you ask smart questions, there's no way you can't do well.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Smart

• I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Thought

• We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • God
  • Past
  • Forgiveness

• An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Political
  • Performance

• Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise those of the recruiting sergeant.

  

  Edward Everett
  • Education
  • Army

• A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.

  

  Dorothy Height
  • Women
  • She

• As a busy working mom I'm always pressed for time, so a quick and easy beauty routine is key!

  

  Angela Kinsey
  • Time
  • Mom

• I'm quite happy being single.

  

  Katherine Kelly
  • Happy
  • Single

• I think you leave your imprint on every screenplay. I like to bring my experience as a woman to all my female characters that hopefully makes them a little more layered and complex.

  

  Allison Schroeder
  • Experience

• In the old days, a TV sync was perceived as not so cool or whittling away at your indie cred. Now it's seen as much more of an opportunity than a sellout, as a way to find fans who wouldn't have ordinarily come across their genre of music.

  

  Alexandra Patsavas
  • Music
  • Opportunity
  • Cool

• My biggest thing is banana pudding, but it's the devil! So no one is allowed to bring it into my house. Because I can't control myself. So why put it in my domain?

  

  Jennifer Hudson
  • Why
  • House
  • Control

• I listen to all types of music so I'm influenced by everything.

  

  Big Boi
  • Music

• The thing I like most about football is it's a meritocracy.

  

  Andrew Luck
  • Football

• The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Best
  • King

• We need to protect our wilderness areas and national parks. Everywhere you travel, you see blight, denuded mountains, logging. If people know what's going on, they'll become activists to safeguard those places.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • People
  • Travel

• All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.

  

  Jane Grey
  • Good
  • True
  • Shadow

• When 1.2 million people come together for Pride in Toronto, that's great, but we now need to start paying it forward and thinking about the rest of the world.

  

  David Furnish
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?

  

  Michael Arad
  • People
  • Space
  • Design