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'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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The U.K. is one of the places that has always been an advocate of my music and I spend a lot of time touring here. I've got family and friends over here, but more than that, there's a large Jamaican community and the Jamaican culture is very widespread in the U.K. which I love.
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I don't speak Filipino or Spanish, but I've sung in both.
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Dreams, she said. Broken dreams are bad enough. But the dream that has no hope...the dream that is doomed long before it’s broken, that’s the worst of all.
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Female physicists, astronomers and mathematicians are up against more than 2,000 years of convention that has long portrayed these fields as inherently male.
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For teenage kids, they feel a pressure to sweep things under the rug because they feel like they're not important enough to have problems.
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To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent.
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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.
