David Pye Quotes
Function is a fantasy...the form of designed things is decided by choice or else by chance; but it is never actually entailed by anything whatever.
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I live alone, so I don't really talk to anyone once I'm home. I have some silent nights.
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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War is the greatest failure of mankind.
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For the first time I'm free to be myself.
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More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance for political gain. My first response is that if you cannot trust a party on the value of defending human life, how can you trust it on issues like marginal tax rates?
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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We must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.
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But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.
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Pain is never permanent.
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My parents moved around Stockton and Lodi. I had a lot of anxiety about jumping into another classroom. They were always putting me in special ed. But I was smart; I wasn't like these kids in the special-ed classes. But it would make me feel a little bit stupid.
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There seems little doubt in my mind that depression, in particular at the severe end of the experience of this condition, is as real a disorder as diabetes is at the severe end of blood glucose levels.
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It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she died, she made just one request: that a picture of me be put into her casket. So somewhere in England, I'm in a casket.
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Governments that try to shoot for a surplus hardly ever reach it.
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Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.
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We should perceive that man's period of historical existence, a period so short that his physical constitution has not been altered in the slightest degree, is insufficient to allow of any considerable mental change.
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There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.
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I have a little piece of Hubble that someone brought back from one of the repair missions. It's on my desk, where I work. I do feel a personal connection to it. It's been part of my life for 20 years.
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The most disturbing thing, I think, with people that do very morally devious things more and more often is to see that they completely feel that they had no choice in the matter.
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You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.
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Will you not covet such power as this, and seek such throne as this, and be no more housewives, but queens? There is no putting by that crown; queens you must always be; queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and sons; queens of higher mystery to the world beyond. . . . But alas! you are too often idle and careless queens, grasping at majesty in the least things, while you abdicate it in the greatest.
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Function is a fantasy...the form of designed things is decided by choice or else by chance; but it is never actually entailed by anything whatever.
