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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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There is no kind way to rip the skin off animals' backs. Anyone who wears any fur shares the blame for the torture and gruesome deaths of millions of animals each year.
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The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.
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People are strange when you're a stranger Faces look ugly when you're alone Women seem wicked when you're unwanted Streets are uneven when you're down.
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Don't think I am not homesick for America. I say 'homesick' advisedly because I am a man with two homes - America, which gave me hospitality for many happy years, and where my daughter was born; and my native England.
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Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.
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We were told we should not pay any attention to John Roberts views and religion and now we are told that opinions and religion do matter. I believe there is a degree of sexism here. . .and ivy league prejudice going on here.
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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.
