Ambeth R. Ocampo Quotes
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I like to prove people wrong.
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I'm either enjoying myself or I'm not. And if I'm not enjoying myself, something's gone terribly wrong.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!
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Five wives can't all be wrong.
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I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.
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There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.
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My company Independent Ideas worked with Gucci on a special edition Fiat 500.
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Travelling is really great for giving you tons of ideas, but it's really hard to actually record anything on the road.
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Scientists and academics in particular focus on detail and the minutiae. When they talk to each other, they usually don't focus on the broad ideas; they don't focus on social interconnectedness. They focus on the task that they're doing.
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When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.
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To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.
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You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.
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I used to write a monthly column for the 'New York Times' syndicate. But I stopped because I found it really hard to have one extreme opinion a month. I don't know how these columnists have two or three ideas a week; I was having difficulty having 12 things to say a year.
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When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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My accent always works with girls. They like it, I have no idea why.
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The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas.
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I want to be the George Clooney of music.
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Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty.
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Warren Spector is amazing, and his team is as good as any in the business. Shame to see all the revenues from their game entangled with all the madness of the Dallas office.
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Rizal learned the right ideas at the wrong time, and for this he was shot.
