Marc Newson Quotes
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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
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Everywhere in the world, whether manufacturing, trade or whatever, it is controlled by one apparatus and one policy perspective. Here we have one prime minister with good intentions, and six ministries running their own empires. This creates problems including the import culture.
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I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to Led Zeppelin, either. We all probably obsessed over the same old blues records growing up.
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What this does for me emotionally, psychologically and spiritually – to look in the mirror and not be ashamed – has been very important in not relapsing.
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I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the human voice and when Oliver plays with other sax players, it's like a dialogue.
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
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I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.
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Fighting Manny Pacquiao in the future - there's possibilities it could happen. But whatever happens in the future happens in the future.
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It's important for whoever is governor to be somebody with a breadth of experience in life, in business, and in service.
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The blood pigment haemoglobin is a compound which can be split by diverse methods into its constituents, pigment and protein.
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On my own, I have very bad posture; I'm clunky.
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When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.
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I'm now the hitting the instructor with the Cleveland Indians.
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Don't worry, the fans don't start booing until July.
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All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which they operate. My language to each of them has to suit their brain.
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Wasim and Waqar were amazing bowlers. I would put them right up there with the best in the world.
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There is nothing more inimical to writing than the spirit of fundamentalism. Fundamentalism abhors the play of signs, the endlessness of writing. Fundamentalism means nothing more or less than going back to an origin and staying there. It stands for one founding book and, thereafter, no more books.
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Peace is only better than war if peace is not hell too. War being hell makes sense.
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Life is not being sure what will come next or how it will come. We guess at everything we do. We take leap after leap in the dark and that's the joy of living and the beauty of faith. When we grow tired, when we sit still, that's when we begin to die.... One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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How much service have I rendered to my people?
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But to me, to be original is to be yourself.
