Marc Newson Quotes
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Engaged, enthusiastic, and loyal employees are pivotal drivers of growth and health in any organization.
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I'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn and I... our initial friendship began because we are both readers. I've gone to sleep almost every night of my life after having read in a novel for 30 or 40 minutes. I'm a great reader of fiction and much less so of non-fiction.
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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I don't want to go to work and get into bed with someone else, not even Tom Cruise. It's not like I enjoy it.
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This is my homeland no one can kick me out.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
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I'm not a non-profit person. I think of myself as an entrepreneur who wants to work on global education.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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My to-do list is the only form of organization I have, other than my iCal. It's not all work stuff; it's a lot of movies that I want to watch sooner rather than later. I have a list that's like, 'Read an essay from this book, then this one, then go back to this one.'
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I had been found in a mud puddle at 4:30 in the morning.
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If you don't score, and you have chances, you are disappointed.
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I believe in glamour. I am in favor of a little vanity. I don't rely on just my genes.
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I wrote my first textbook in 1970. It was called 'The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy,' and over the years, many students told me that they enjoyed reading it because there were so many stories in there; often just a paragraph or a page of something that happened in a group session.
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Because Social Security has not contributed to our debt, Americans should be skeptical of any politician who says that benefits Americans have earned must be reduced in order to address our national debt.
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Making love is, simply put, poetry in motion.
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I have so much appreciation for how those two cultures have created who I am. I'm a full-blooded Brazilian, with an entire extended family of Brazilians, but I was born and raised in the U.S.
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I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions.
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If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.
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If the nature of the work is properly appreciated and applied, it will stand in the same relation to the higher faculties as food is to the physical body.
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I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.
