Bill Moggridge Quotes
Few people think about this or are aware of it. But there is nothing made by human beings that does not involve a design decision somewhere.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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A lasting architecture has to have roots.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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The hijab is a symbol that we wear on our heads, but I want people to know that it is my choice. I'm doing it because I want to do it. I wanted people to see that you could still be really cute and modest at the same time.
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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
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Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.
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If there was a time when 'The Ecologist' appeared not to be making a difference at all, not doing something useful, I wouldn't do 'The Ecologist,' but I think it is useful.
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Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides.
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I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.
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Same-sex marriage is not the future.
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I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.
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I never intended to box forever, and always planned to move on to do other things.
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It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.
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I use myself as the barometer to gauge what is scary. I like to think if something scares me, then there's a very good chance an audience will feel the same way.
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I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.
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[Clover] secretly hitched a ride with a nice German couple and their new baby...Clover appeared to the baby, so as to be a delightful, soothing surprise. Well, the child did like Clover. In fact, she held him and cooed. When the parents turned around to look at her and saw their child holding a furry, living creature, they needlessly panicked.
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Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.
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If you want to eat chocolate or cakes, you have to eat it in the morning, for breakfast or lunch - don't eat it in the night.
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Few people think about this or are aware of it. But there is nothing made by human beings that does not involve a design decision somewhere.
