Ellen Lupton Quotes
Are some free fonts a gift to humanity rather than a blight on typographic civilization?
Quotes to Explore
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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'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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I've got bowlegs, so if I do a midcalf look, I look bandy.
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Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.
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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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We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest.
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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'm a little more goofy than I think people give me credit for. I like to have fun. I like to have a good time. People don't always get to see that.
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I never thought I would be one of those wacky chicks who say, 'I loved my labor,' but I loved every part of it. It was the best day of my life.
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'Canticum Sacrum' is wonderfully archaic. What Stravinsky does is extraordinary. It takes you on a journey from Gregorian chant right through to the modernism of Webern - and all in 17 minutes.
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The Americans stabbed in the back the forces that worked to bring about the collapse of Saddam's regime and wanted to keep Iraq a sovereign country.
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Are some free fonts a gift to humanity rather than a blight on typographic civilization?
