Michael Arad Quotes

I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to suggest that my design only fits within an 'ism' kind of bothers me.

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• I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.

  

  Vikas Swarup
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• Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

  

  Lady Randolph Churchill
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• Those guys were made for me and Muhammad because they come straight in and don't back up but you had to watch out for his punching power but if we could have neutralized that then we would have been fine.

  

  Larry Holmes
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• Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
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• What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
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• My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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• Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.

  

  Ian Hacking
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• The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Past

• 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
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• If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.

  

  Damian Loeb
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• Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.

  

  Gary Oldman
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• People think that Israelis are mean, evil people who only want to hurt Arabs all day.

  

  Naftali Bennett
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• Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
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• Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.

  

  E. O. Wilson
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  • Organization
  • Ants

• Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy... and on and on and on.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
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• I travel a lot. I spend close to 300 days a year on the road.

  

  Kaskade
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• I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love.

  

  Bai Ling
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• A lot of rumours on the Internet are wrong and horrible.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Internet
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• To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of us all, I offer a play of my plays for every night of the week, because you like them, and because you have taught me my trade.

  

  Lady Gregory
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• I don't take sports seriously although I like that Scottish thing where they throw the poles. I'm down with that.

  

  Peter Buck R.E.M.
  • Sports
  • Seriously
  • Throw

• One thing is clear, everyone, no matter what their professional or material status, no matter what their influence on various state structures, must obey the law.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Law
  • Influence
  • Clear

• I can't say that I ever actually decided to become a writer. It kind of snuck up on me.

  

  William Landay
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• I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to suggest that my design only fits within an 'ism' kind of bothers me.

  

  Michael Arad
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