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.'
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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.
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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.
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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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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.
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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!
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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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.
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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.
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We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.
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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
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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.
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The military people don't like it; the government probably doesn't like it, but the people should know what they're sending their young people into when they permit their governments to declare war and engage in war.
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I've played women since I was a kid and I've always enjoyed it.
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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.
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I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.
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English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.
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My audience has lots of people between 20 and 35, but there are always a few 60-year-olds, and it makes me happier than if everyone was 22.
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All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks.
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If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss.
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Discontented women are like pressure cookers. The steam rises and one day they just reach boiling point.
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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.
