Adrian Frutiger Quotes

The whole point with type is for you not to be aware it is there. If you remember the shape of a spoon with which you just ate some soup, then the spoon had a poor shape.

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• In some communities, I show up, and they say, 'Well, we haven't seen our Democrat congressman in 10 years.'

  

  Rand Paul
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• When I was a kid growing up, I always thought I would be a journalist, and I thought, you know, I'd cover stories about other people, and we're always taught never to make the story about yourself.

  

  Tamron Hall
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• First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.

  

  Barton Gellman
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• Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.

  

  Tali Lennox
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• One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
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• My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
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• I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
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• I want to act, if I can, as a bridge for people who read 'Shock Doctrine' or 'No Logo'. People who are sitting out for whatever reasons.

  

  Naomi Klein
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• I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.

  

  Babette March
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• We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.

  

  Warren Buffett
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• The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

  

  J. Paul Getty
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• If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.

  

  Barney Frank
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• The first thing that is not obvious to people is global warming is a less-than-1% effect. It's like being shortchanged at the bank by a penny every dollar. Over a long period of time with lots of transactions, that piles up.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
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• I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.

  

  Laura Dern
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• English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.

  

  Zadie Smith
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• You should not ask questions without knowledge.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
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• We have always been prepared to negotiate with the U.S. government everything that has to do with bilateral relations, on a basis of the strictest mutual respect for the sovereign rights of each country. We will never try to ask the government of the United States to change its economic and political system.

  

  Fidel Castro
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• It doesn't bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs – because at least they're looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• So where are the strongAnd who are the trusted?And where is the harmony?Sweet harmony -'cause each time I feel it slippin away, it just makes me wanna cry:What's so funny 'bout Peace, Love, and Understanding?

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
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• In 1944 James Arthur and Minnie Susan were added to the Marx household.

  

  Harpo Marx
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• Donald Trump called George W. Bush 'the worst president in the history of the United States.' Then he added, 'Until, of course, I'm elected.'

  

  Conan O'Brien
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• I very much write from characters. Those people start speaking, and then I have them in the house with me and I live with them. Then at some point, it's time to get them out of the house. You can only live with someone like Dr. Georgeous Teitelbaum from THE SISTERS ROSENSWEIG for so long, and then it's time for her to go. But it is very like having the company of these people and trying to craft them in some way into a story.

  

  Wendy Wasserstein
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• We do a lot of "capital I" important stories, but one I'd highlight is the work we've done on guns, not only for the acclaim it's gotten but also because it showcases all the different kinds formats we use. So we compiled a database of all the variables of all the mass shootings in America - work the government doesn't do, thanks to the NRA - which allowed us to surface patterns and make data visualizations of it.

  

  Clara Jeffery
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• The whole point with type is for you not to be aware it is there. If you remember the shape of a spoon with which you just ate some soup, then the spoon had a poor shape.

  

  Adrian Frutiger
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