Marc Newson Quotes
You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things.
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I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
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It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.
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Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.
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I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
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I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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Relationships are people's No. 1 priorities. They want to have good relationships, and a lot of times they don't.
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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
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The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.
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Right now were in the middle of a cultural war between the Muslims and the Western world. The politicians get in the way, but if you put two people together in a room, they can talk it out and work it out, just like Anna and the King.
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I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.
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Marriage isn't the end-point of a relationship. It's just a stepping stone, one aspect of a long-term evolution between two people who have, for whatever reason, decided to take a leap of faith and say, 'Well, hey, this is a person who I want to try with for the rest of my life.' Which is not a guarantee of perfection - far from it.
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You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things.
