Ellen Lupton Quotes
Working within the constraints of a problem is part of the fun and challenge of design.

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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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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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Pero la vida es corta:viviendo, todo falta;muriendo, todo sobra.
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Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on.
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Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive.
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I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that.
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We do not know whether it is good to live or to die. Therefore, we should not take delight in living, nor should we tremble at the thought of death. We should be equiminded towards death. This is the ideal. It may be long before we reach it, and only a few of us can attain it. Even then, we must keep it constantly in view, and the more difficult it seems of attainment, the greater should be the effort we put forth.
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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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Working within the constraints of a problem is part of the fun and challenge of design.