Paul Rand (Peretz Rosenbaum) Quotes
Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.
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I believe that as an entertainer, you're only as good as your audience and the people who support you.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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I shampoo every other day and only do the roots. I can't shampoo all the way down to the end, because it will dry my hair out. I use a mask multiple times a week to restore moisture.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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I'm gonna stay an album guy. In fact, concept albums are really blowing my mind right now, because if you want to promote an album, think about it - a concept album might be the way to go.
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Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
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I started on computers with 'Billy Bathgate,' a little orange screen with black letters. I thought it was really cool, but it actually slowed me up for a while because it's so easy to revise, I tended to stay on the same page. I've learned to discipline myself.
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The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
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In this meditation we do not concentrate or control the mind. We let the mind follow its natural instinct toward greater happiness, and it goes within and it gains bliss consciousness in the being.
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But he understood from hard-earned experience that true security comes through making peace with your neighbors.
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Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure; but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new, active, and immediate.
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The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.
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President Obama deserves our unalloyed praise for hastening Osama bin Laden's demise.
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The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
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People can talk about punk all they want, but after new wave put that down, metal is the voice of the disenfranchised and that need to become unhinged. That's why it appeals to so many people when they are younger and carries over when those people, at 40, don't want to grow up.
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I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make you laugh, and you're confused about the mixed feelings. That's challenging, and I think that's what makes for some of the best art.
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I collect art like other people eat pizza. I can't get enough of it. I need a constant source of inspiration.
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I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and had to fight a lot.
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Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.
