Bill Moggridge Quotes
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.
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Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.
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Once your body is in workout-mode, a few days off won't hurt. Muscle memory is magical. If you work out consistently, you can afford to miss a few sessions and your body will gladly pick up where you left off.
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I have long been interested in exploring and advancing the valuable relationships between the arts and society.
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After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting.
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Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.
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Once you lose that fear, good stuff can happen because you're not in your head about whether it will suck. Once you don't care and accept that it probably will suck, then it probably won't suck.
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I've had people in the family, male and female, impacted by heart disease. But people can prevent it.
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The earth shall be left to no one.
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One of the great things about our democracy is it expresses itself in all sorts of ways. And that includes people protesting. I've been the subject of protests during the course of my eight years and I suspect that there's not a president in our history that at some point hasn't been subject to these protests.
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Disengagement is a response to certain demographic realities, .. Within a few years, due to the higher Arab birth rate, Jews will become a minority in the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. I don't want [Israel] to be South Africa because we don't believe in apartheid. We simply have to separate from the Palestinians so that we can control our own destinies.
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I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.
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The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth.
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There is always something new coming out of Africa.
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What my tongue dares not that my heart shall say
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I don't think our Beat Generation would even be known as that, had it not been for Ginsberg. You might say he put that whole concept together. Without it, we might have been known, but only as individuals. Separate, great writers, scattered across the landscape.
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Wearing the right thing, at the right moment, could actually change your life.
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Freedom is too abstract a concept: You can’t eat it, fuck it, sit under it when it rains or even do very much with it besides get in trouble and have it taken away from you again.
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The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.
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I like the concept of wearing in instead of wearing out.
