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 time

Achille Castiglioni

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• A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Movie
  • Humanity
  • Human

• 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
  • Life
  • Political
  • Creation

• 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
  • You
  • Wife
  • Honey

• America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Country
  • America
  • Revolution

• As you do on any cable series, if they introduce you as the villain, then you better start working towards making him a really good guy, or if they introduce you as a really good guy, then you better start working towards being the villain. Your character has to go somewhere, or else they become very uninteresting.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Good
  • Character
  • Guy

• In the end, abortion is an issue of fundamental human rights. To force women to undergo pregnancy and childbirth against their will is to deprive them of the right to make basic decisions about their lives and well-being, and to give that power to the state.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Women
  • Power
  • End

• 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
  • Environment
  • Human
  • Will

• 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
  • Work
  • College
  • Movies

• Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of a mirror.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Beauty
  • Mirror
  • Hours

• My father was a milkman. So, I delivered milk.

  

  Karl Malden
  • Father
  • Milk
  • Delivered

• 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
  • People
  • Great
  • Sex

• 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
  • Men
  • History
  • Growing

• Pero la vida es corta:viviendo, todo falta;muriendo, todo sobra.

  

  Lope de Vega

• Lord of himself,-that heritage of woe!

  

  Lord Byron

• Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on.

  

  Belle Boyd
  • Live
  • Sad

• 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
  • People
  • Funny

• 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
  • People
  • Bad
  • Culture

• The other day they asked me about mandatory drug testing. I said I believed in drug testing a long time ago. All through the sixties I tested everything.

  

  Bill Le
  • Time
  • Long
  • Drug

• Google has placed its faith in data, while Apple worships the power of design. This dichotomy made the two companies complementary. Apple would ship the phones and computers, while Google would provide Maps, Search, YouTube, and other web tools that made the devices more useful.

  

  Ben Parr
  • Power
  • Faith
  • Design

• I think the United States is sick. It suffers from the sickness, the disease of being the victor and it needs to cure itself from this disease.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Thinking
  • Suffering
  • Disease

• In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed the documents to the next government, and I never heard about it again.

  

  Jean-Bertrand Aristide
  • Truth
  • Justice

• 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
  • Design
  • Secret
  • Disease