Saul Griffith Quotes
In many respects, designing heirloom products means saying no to designing consumer crap that you know will not last very long.
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A lot of people asked me if it was frustrating not having a clear specific diagnosis, but I didn't mind, I just chose the most optimistic diagnosis.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
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I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
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My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.
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If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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I'm never really going to be the normal teenager.
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I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.
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I love playing odd roles.
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I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it's very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn't: 'Oh, you're making fun of me right now.' And I wasn't!
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I guess I just always had this idea that I would go to Hollywood. I had the typical 'get up and go' attitude that you have to have in order to make the brave step into the big city.
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Whoever is for higher taxes, feel free to pay higher taxes.
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What I love best in life is new starts.
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When I was four, I wrote a song about falling into a black hole.
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Preaching Christianity to skeptics without first setting out the praeambula fidei preambles of faith, and then complaining when they don’t accept it, is like yelling in English at someone who only speaks Chinese, and then dismissing him as a fool when he doesn’t understand you. In both cases, while there is certainly a fool in the picture, it isn’t the listener.
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Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.
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Never compromise and sell yourself short.
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In many respects, designing heirloom products means saying no to designing consumer crap that you know will not last very long.
