Mal Peet Quotes
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The role of designers and product makers is to really become much better editors. What kind of functionality is actually needed - and truly delightful - to consumers? Remove all the extraneous stuff.
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There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.
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I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss. I'm going to try to make out with her.'
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I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.
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If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.
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I have a fearless but neutral personality.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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There's something about a humid, dusky evening that's kind of sexy.
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The types of melodies I tend to write kind of have this bittersweet quality; they're meant to be uplifting but kind of have this melancholy vibe to it.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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I'm kind of a reluctant guru.
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It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.
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There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.
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I will just generalise it that anything that I find too disgusting is not worth an answer.
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I'm kind of obsessed by Everest and all those men that mountaineer and take themselves to extreme limits.
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We have to stand up for what we believe in, even when we might not be popular for it. Honesty starts with being ourselves, authentic and true to who we are and what we believe in, and that may not always be popular, but it will always let you follow your dreams and your heart.
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Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.
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Look at Google. They are re-organizing their businesses ,even renaming it with Alphabet, so they can be bolder and make strategic mistakes and then learn from them. But most companies aren't Google in that they make incremental changes and don't go for the moon shot.
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I've been thinking about going back to university. I need more tools to continue to apply to the music. I've got to open myself up to more language.
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I have kind of a personality defect in that I find the word 'no' hard to articulate.
