Gae Aulenti Quotes

I aim to create furniture that appears in a room as buildings on a skyline and reminds the viewer of the interaction between objects of design and architectural space.

Gae Aulenti

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• For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • You
  • Tax
  • Benefit

• Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Truth
  • Enough
  • Belief

• It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • People
  • Good
  • Attention

• Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Sometimes
  • Saying
  • Silent

• There is more to life than increasing its speed.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • More
  • Speed

• Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Game
  • Team
  • College

• Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • History
  • Past
  • Study

• I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.

  

  Ian Hart
  • Working
  • Yoga
  • Really

• I like the fact that I can do stunts, but I don't think of myself as a stunt guy. Those guys are really good at what they do.

  

  Daniel Cudmore
  • Good
  • Think
  • Guy

• I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Good
  • Work
  • Movie

• South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or Indian) profit from de facto segregation.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Together
  • Black
  • Path

• I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Writing
  • Feel
  • Need

• This coupling together of science with international peace, is, I think, particularly significant.

  

  Irving Langmuir
  • Together
  • Science
  • Peace

• The best thing you can do for your body is sleep. It's simple. Cater to your body as much as to your mind. Your body, after all, houses your mind. You have to pay attention to your physicality as much as your mentality.

  

  Kajol
  • Mind
  • Attention
  • Simple

• And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Work
  • Art
  • Myself

• What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.

  

  Kate Millett
  • God
  • Mean
  • Mental Illness

• Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite?

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Reality
  • Like
  • Corner

• Even as I was writing 'Empire State,' I knew there were more adventures for the main character, private detective Rad Bradley, to have. I also knew that the world was far larger than what I'd presented in book one.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • World
  • Writing
  • Character

• I enjoyed meeting Emma Watson. I have a soft spot in my heart for child actors growing up. I know how hard that is. Having gone through that experience myself, I have a lot of sensitivity to it. For lack of a better word, I just feel like I love these kids, and I want them all to grow up and love themselves, and not get caught up in the wrong things, and to learn all the different things this profession has to give, and to understand it.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Child
  • Actors
  • I Love

• Any astrophysicist does not feel small looking up at the universe; we feel large.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Up
  • Small
  • Universe

• The International Space Station is a phenomenal laboratory, an unparalleled test bed for new invention and discovery. Yet I often thought, while silently gazing out the window at Earth, that the actual legacy of humanity's attempts to step into space will be a better understanding of our current planet and how to take care of it.

  

  Chris Hadfield
  • Earth
  • Space
  • Understanding

• When you're smaller and leaner, you're not going to have that large a presence throughout the world.

  

  Leon Panetta
  • World

• In my work as an actor, I have been given even greater insights and have been guided towards empathy and a consciousness of those who are less fortunate.

  

  Adrien Brody
  • Actor
  • Empathy
  • Insights

• I aim to create furniture that appears in a room as buildings on a skyline and reminds the viewer of the interaction between objects of design and architectural space.

  

  Gae Aulenti
  • Space
  • Create
  • Interaction