Ettore Sottsass Quotes
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I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
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After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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I know politics; I know the media.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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People were stopping me on the street to say, 'Oh my God, it's Crazy Eyes!' Which is kind of a funny thing to have people shout at you on the street.
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Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.
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It's always in the second administration when things start to go sour. They circle the wagons.
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I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck up all my time.
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The general market wants what I do.
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Common man, no matter how hard life is to him, at least has the fortune of not thinking it.
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The butt is not a magical place that only gay people can visit, like a leather bar or the Liberace Museum.
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Our blight is ideologies - they are the long-expected Antichrist!
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To destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.
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Tcl long ago fell into the Forth trap, and is now trying desperately to extricate itself (with some help from Sun's marketing department).
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'Oh, dear no, miss,' he said. 'This is a London particular.' I had never heard of such a thing. 'A fog, miss,' said the young gentleman. 'Oh, indeed!' said I.
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I wish I could say that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had done himself less than justice. Unfortunately, I can only say that I believe he has done himself justice. Some Chancellors are macro-economic. Other Chancellors are fiscal. This one is just plain cheap.
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Given a conjecture, the best thing is to prove it. The second best thing is to disprove it. The third best thing is to prove that it is not possible to disprove it, since it will tell you not to waste your time trying to disprove it. That's what Gödel did for the Continuum Hypothesis.
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There will be no peace in our world without an understanding of the place of religion within it.
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The critical reaction to 'Bloom' has been similar to 'Brick.' There are people on board with it and people who are not.
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You have to think of your career the way you look at the ocean, deciding which wave you're gonna take and which waves you're not gonna take. Some of the waves are going to be big, some are gonna be small, sometimes the sea is going to be calm. Your career is not going to be one steady march upward to glory.
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Be patient, calm, compassionate. Know that existence is fleeting.
