Ellen Lupton Quotes
Are some free fonts a gift to humanity rather than a blight on typographic civilization?
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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I've got bowlegs, so if I do a midcalf look, I look bandy.
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I'm the best Twitterer.
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The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spirit-ual values. Myself included. We've learned certain skills, we've learned to prevail somewhat, but we've not made it over the mountain.
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Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
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I work out in a studio. Every day, regardless where I am, at least two hours. I need it. I can't cease it.
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Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business.
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Whether or not they exist, we're slaves to the gods.
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I don’t get angry, I don’t want to use harsh words. They are our colleagues and we have to work with them. But they also have to learn to work with us.
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Among politicians and businessman, Pragmatism is the current term for 'To hell with our children.'
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The watchers below pulled in their breath all at once. The air felt suddenly shared. The man above was a word they seemed to know, though they had not heard it before.
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We have much to learn by studying nature and taking the time to tease out its secrets.
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My only qualifications to be an actor were that I'm daring, and I'm a quick learner. I've always learnt by watching what other people do. It's the same with my writing. I write what I know. Structurally, I write in a very undisciplined way.
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When I see a room full of people pedaling away on stationary bikes, I fall into an existential spiral. It's confirmation that all we do as humans is pedal, pedal, pedal, and go nowhere. We're just specks of dust in the universe, riding 1970s stationary bicycles.
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I realized I was a girl playing with all of these great musicians, but race and gender never did cross my mind, really, until other people started talking about them. They weren't really an issue for me.
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I think Pixar's done an amazing job integrating art and science. They really get this idea that art and engineering work side by side.
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People will always consider me a cartoon character, a bimbo. They will never give me credit.
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I hate knowing where people go to the bathroom. You follow them going to pee, to eat - I hate everything when it comes to reality shows!
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I wrote a book called ‘Dancing The Dream’. It was more autobiographical than Moonwalk, which I did with Mrs. Onassis. It wasn’t full of gossip and scandal and all that trash that people write, so I don’t think people paid much attention to it, but it came from my heart. It was essays, thoughts and things that I’ve thought about while on tour...
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A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying.
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Sometimes the biggest lies we tell are to ourselves.
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Civilization is what makes you sick.
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Are some free fonts a gift to humanity rather than a blight on typographic civilization?
