Karim Rashid Quotes
My real desire is to see people live in the modus of our time, to participate in the contemporary world, to release themselves from nostalgia, antiquated traditions, old rituals, meaningless kitsch and meaningless paradigms.
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I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym.
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I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.
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I believe that we should be able to marry whom ever we choose. As long as both people are willing... I say go for it!
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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I love working with women.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.
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I have learned not to feed the trolls. I just don't respond.
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I don't know about the whole song-and-dance thing. But if India will have me, the independent cinema scene there is something I'm really interested in.
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My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
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If you happen to live close to the desert border, you can pretty much calculate how long it will be before you have to carry your kids away and abandon your home and your life as you know it.
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You have to try to grow between every fight: get back in the gym and keep working hard and find the areas that you need to work on. See what you did wrong and work on it.
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I love playing these characters that are crazy tough, though. Because I am not in real life. Not at all.
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People sometimes think I'm sort of all-knowing.
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Sometimes you just do things and let your natural self become a part of what you're doing.
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I don't like anything new.
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Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.
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I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'
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My real desire is to see people live in the modus of our time, to participate in the contemporary world, to release themselves from nostalgia, antiquated traditions, old rituals, meaningless kitsch and meaningless paradigms.
