Colleen Atwood Quotes
The exposure I have had to beautiful materials across the world, from Japan to Italy, enables me to pull design ideas together. This, combined with years of historical research, has created a great fountain of ideas for me.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
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Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!
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I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.
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I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.
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I'm also pretty resilient and fearless, and when I want something I go for it.
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I've been at the funerals of a lot of people in my neighborhood. Sometimes when I sit back and relax, I think about that and just blank out.
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Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life.
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There's way more pressure cooking for cooks than rowing at the Olympics.
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The producers and writers of dance music are becoming the stars, not so much the DJs.
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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
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The exposure I have had to beautiful materials across the world, from Japan to Italy, enables me to pull design ideas together. This, combined with years of historical research, has created a great fountain of ideas for me.
