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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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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Fantasy sports went a long way toward developing the sabermetrics formulas used not only by oddsmakers but general managers in hiring players. So the amateur fantasists ended up creating some of the algorithms that Oakland GM Billy Bean's statisticians used to win games with less salary money available for star players.
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Isn't he Bush the worst president ever? I mean, when his term is over, he has to walk back to Texas.
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One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well why he is honest-for the same reasons another person prefers illusion and dissimulation.
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Love is the wild card of existence.
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... art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror or absurdity of existence into notions with which one can live.
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Be patient, calm, compassionate. Know that existence is fleeting.
