Bran Ferren Quotes

Art and design are not luxuries, nor somehow incompatible with science and engineering.

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• New York City is my favorite city in the world.

  

  Halston Sage
  • World
  • City
  • New York

• I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Hate

• Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Deal
  • Regulations

• Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Moment
  • Page
  • Prepare

• I try to show ugliness, but with compassion for the people who commit ugly acts.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Compassion
  • Ugly

• The media is controlled.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Media
  • Controlled

• Mom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education.

  

  Patricia A. Woertz
  • School
  • She
  • Education

• I love music. I think it's a higher art form, in a way, than movies. You know, a film you see once, maybe twice. A song will follow you forever. It's a magical thing.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Music
  • Art
  • Way

• One of the fascinating things about researching Heaven and Hell is, of course, the fact that there are so few descriptions of Heaven, because most people can't really explain what it would be like beyond a couple of sentences, whereas Hell is quite often personal.

  

  Tad Williams
  • People
  • Heaven
  • Couple

• It's like that with what sort of ideas people outside of the band have of HIM. They all see it through a different lens as well which is beautiful. Hopefully, it makes it an endless topic of conversation.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • People
  • Different
  • Beautiful

• What's great in theater is that you can sustain the arc of a character for a full three hours, whereas in film or TV, you have to create that arc in little pieces, and usually out of sequence.

  

  Daniel Dae Kim
  • Great
  • Character
  • Three

• I don't watch a lot of TV.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Watch
  • Lot
  • TV

• I want to have an impact because I don't want anybody to have to go through what I went through.

  

  Vince Staples
  • Want
  • Impact
  • Through

• No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems unlikely that anyone will do so for many years.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Purpose

• Said one among them - 'Surely not in vain My substance of the common Earth was ta'en And to this Figure moulded, to be broke, Or trampled back to shapeless Earth again'.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Earth

• Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth,Stealing my breath of life, I will confessI love this cultured hell that tests my youth!

  

  Claude McKay
  • Life
  • She
  • Tiger

• Stuff happens when you are a kid, it scars you inside for life.

  

  Corey Haim
  • Life
  • Scars

• Lives that are so conspicuous have a claustrophobic feeling. Once you're in charge of running a country, you're under scrutiny all the time. That's a trap.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • Time
  • Country
  • Feeling

• In Mexic,o the concept of a sitcom doesn't actually exist - even if you do a sitcom, technically speaking, because it airs from Monday to Friday, they put it in the telenovela category. But, of course, I am from Mexico and grew up with the telenovela culture.

  

  Jaime Federico Said Camil Saldaña da Gama
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Friday

• History, that is to be written tomorrow ...to be read by our children ... to serve as their guide is written in our actions today. A greater call to responsibility I have not known.

  

  Gary Holder-Winfield
  • Children
  • Today
  • Responsibility

• I have a Madonna portrait done in the style of a Russian icon. My mother, the chef Lidia Bastianich, and I bought it together. It reminds me of her.

  

  Joe Bastianich
  • Done
  • Together
  • Mother

• Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

  

  Francis Picabia
  • Death
  • Hand

• The same challenge also appears in an even more fraught setting: dating. Optimal stopping is the science of serial monogamy. Simple algorithms offer solutions not only to an apartment hunt but to all such situations in life where we confront the question of optimal stopping. People grapple witah these issues every day—although surely poets have spilled more ink on the tribulations of courtship than of parking—and they do so with, in some cases, considerable anguish. But the anguish is unnecessary. Mathematically, at least, these are solved problems. Every harried renter, driver, and suitor you see around you as you go through a typical week is essentially reinventing the wheel. They don’t need a therapist; they need an algorithm. The therapist tells them to find the right, comfortable balance between impulsivity and overthinking. The algorithm tells them the balance is thirty-seven percent.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Science
  • Challenge
  • Solutions

• Art and design are not luxuries, nor somehow incompatible with science and engineering.

  

  Bran Ferren
  • Science
  • Engineering
  • Luxuries