Ettore Sottsass Quotes
A chair must be really important as an object, because my mother always told me to offer my chair to a lady
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My family loves to take me out, and we do regular things like go to the movies. My friends do that as well. At the same time, I love work and I want to be busy all the time!
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
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I still pray a lot. I still believe in God. I just don't believe in any set religion.
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We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.
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It's always a wake-up call to get beaten.
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This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.
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I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
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Whenever you hear a discussion about the short-term swings in any given stock's price, your immediate thought should be whether it matters to why you are investing.
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When women's parts are being written, they are more and more for under 30s who are nubile and beautiful. Actresses over 40 are finding very little happening.
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It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo.
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When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.
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Although most executives pay lip service to the idea of hiring for cultural fit, few have the courage or discipline to make it the primary criteria for bringing someone into the company.
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I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.
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When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.
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I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don't want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.
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Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.
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I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.
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A chair must be really important as an object, because my mother always told me to offer my chair to a lady
