Achille Castiglioni Quotes
There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the timeAchille Castiglioni
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And we will accept the creation of the Iberian Federation of a socialist republic which will give each region the right to construct its life in accordance with its economic possibilities and political preponderance.
Federica Montseny -
If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.
Eden Hazard -
America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution.
Malcolm X -
Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed, they won't function at all.
Ralph Merkle -
I feel that being an actor is a front-row seat into seeing how everybody else makes their movies. Basically, being in the trenches for ten years is like a college-level course in filmmaking if not more. It feels like every director I work with and every set that I visit as an actor, I see someone else's definition of filmmaking.
Lake Bell -
My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.
Octavia E. Butler
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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.
Washington Irving -
Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on.
Belle Boyd -
It is funny to me that because I can run, because I'm athletic, people tend to see that as my only asset.
Colin Kaepernick -
My first plays were amazingly bad, but I had a teacher who thought I had promise, and he kept working with me. I finally went to a summer workshop before my senior year with people like Sam Shepard and Maria Irene Fornes who encouraged me to write from my subconscious, and suddenly all this material about culture clash came out.
David Henry Hwang -
In December 2014, Uber held its annual holiday party on an unfurnished floor at its swank, mood-lit headquarters in San Francisco. Employees and investors attended in flamboyant attire from the Roaring '20s and drank at an open bar into the early morning hours.
Emily Chang -
We've been lucky. Even as a young, local-level band, we were able to rise out of the local scene without having any debt, without having signed the wrong deal with the wrong manager or the wrong booker or a small label.
Tyler Joseph Twenty One Pilots
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Satire also allows you to make fun of every different aspect. It allows you to make fun of both sides. It allows you to make fun of everything, really, so you can do it in a harmless way.
Neill Blomkamp -
Roy Acuff was a big hero for me, and I was so sad when he passed. It's hard as you get older to lose your friends and family.
George Jones Mr. President (band) -
What you haven't seen from me are false attacks.
Joe Garcia -
The fact that I wasn't expected to read music at all and was absorbing everything by ear... it had a huge affect on the kind of musician that I became.
Andrew Bird -
Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a genius. You don't have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.
John C. Maxwell -
My partner and I are looking at several locations on Park Avenue South and Midtown for a new restaurant space.
Bobby Flay
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If one limits to developing only the kitchen and bathroom as standardized rooms because of their installation, and then also decides to arrange the remaining living area with movable walls, I believe that any justified living requirements can be met.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -
Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I don't separate architecture, design, or culture. What's more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning.
Neri Oxman -
Design, whether it's on your body or in your home, is the same thing. It's mixing different colors, different textures, and unexpected patterns - elements that you wouldn't often put together in an interesting way.
Blake Lively -
There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time
Achille Castiglioni