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 go home and don't get treated any differently. People have known me all my life and are interested and very supportive but because they have known me forever I don't get any diva treatment. My mum still tells me off if I haven't loaded the dishwasher for her.
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I always wanted to do a Western.
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Every moment in life can be interpreted as a risk, depending on our outlook - and level of obsessive- compulsive disorder! I do my best to depend on my gut. If you sit with a decision long enough, your gut/soul will tell you what path to take.
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I've been broke and sad, rich and sad, broke and happy, rich and happy, and I'll take the rich version over the broke version all day long.
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I said to my parents that I don't even know if there should be an Israel. And they were just so upset and hurt.
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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.
