Ellen Lupton Quotes
Working within the constraints of a problem is part of the fun and challenge of design.
Quotes to Explore
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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I love fast food, but you have to try to eat healthy.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.
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I choose to express myself.
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Mick Jagger has produced some great films and brought us stories about the music industry that have changed the way we think about how music is made. I never thought I would actually call him my boss, let alone meet Mick Jagger or have any reason to say my name in the same sentence as his.
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I like Sam Smith and Taylor Swift. I love pop music, but I also like Sam Smith's slow songs. That would be more to dance to. I think dancers like different genres of music, compared to just a regular person.
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Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time.
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I have personally believed in every product I have ever advertised.
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From 1997 through 1999, I had gained so much. People don't realize how something like weight gain can make you sad. Losing weight has changed my life. If you can take control of your life, you can lose weight.
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I'm the third of five children.
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Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.
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Innovation comes to you from creators who do have a vision and a passion, and that is how we succeeded.
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We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.
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Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality.
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I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.
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I've seen so much. And I've heard so many great performers. There are performers now that couldn't work back in the days when I came along.
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I do desire we may be better strangers.
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I'm fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff.
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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!
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There is more energy locked up in sources around the solar system than we could ever reasonably expect to need, the problem would be transporting them back to earth and using them in a cost efficient manner.
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Working within the constraints of a problem is part of the fun and challenge of design.
