Wolfgang Weingart Quotes
For me, typography is a triangular relationship between design idea, typographic elements, and printing technique.
Quotes to Explore
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Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
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The Western day is indeed nearing when the inner science of self-control will be found as necessary as the outer conquest of nature. This new Atomic Age will see men's minds sobered and broadened by the now scientifically indisputable truth that matter is in reality a concentrate of energy.
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When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.
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The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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The objectification of females is not a good thing! Not every rapper does this, but when the lyrics focus solely on the strip club, 'poppin' bottles' and how many girls they can 'tap,' it distorts what kids are learning. I think if there was more of a female presence in hip hop we could break up the monotony. It's all about balance.
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I love the sea, but I avoid any sort of seaside resort that has skyscrapers or seaside entertainments.
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It's a little difficult when something goes from being an utter obsession - a thing where your skill defines you as a person - to it just being a thing you occasionally do.
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We have an obligation to our men and women in uniform - and to future generations - to do something about the issue of climate change.
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When people go to Ladakh, they go to Leh; they don't go to everything in the middle.
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A doubtful balance is made between truth and pleasure, and... the knowledge of one and the feeling of the other stir up a combat the success of which is very uncertain, since, in order to judge of it, it would be necessary to know all that passes in the innermost spirit of the man, of which man himself is scarcely ever conscious.
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The book doesn't end when you finish writing it.
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The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything.
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I suppose what happened is that I spent my whole life wanting to be cool but eventually came to recognise the mechanism of how coolness works. So it's not really that I don't want to be cool anymore - it's more like I've come to realise that coolness doesn't exist the way I once assumed.
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I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father.
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Several paranoid suspicions occurred to me, the worst of which was that my whole identity was merely a patched-together set of behaviors designed to keep my parents joined to each other - the repertoire of tricks of a small but intelligent dog.
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Don't kill the competition. Competition is healthy for businesses. It keeps you the entrepreneur on your toes.
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For me, typography is a triangular relationship between design idea, typographic elements, and printing technique.
