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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I'm from Colombia, and we've been through a lot of hard situations.
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If the deaf are to hear, the sound has to be very loud. When we dropped the bomb, it was not our intention to kill anybody. We have bombed the British Government. The British must quit India and make her free.
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How do you actually green the supply chain is a challenge. The easier part is to do what we do; the difficult part is to get all your clients to long process will take time.
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By coincidence and not design, 'Everstar' is written and drawn by an all-female creative team, and it makes me smile to think that there may be young female readers out there, future writers and artists, who get to see that comics doesn't have to be a 'boys' club.'
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I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.
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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.
