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		Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Indra Nooyi
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Gabriel Basso
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Whatever is done by design is always overdone.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Charlotte Lennox
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				D. H. Lawrence
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I came down successfully through Picasso and Braque, down through Pollock, I guess, but I began to stop at Franz Kline and the Abstractionists. I like their design, brilliant design, marvelous color layers. But I don't find any human content there. I'm from an old school, and painting has to have human content for me.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Irving Stone
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Borderline embarrassing fact: I used to have a pseudo line when I was seven called Zizzy Fashion. I love clothing, and I would eventually like to design as well as act.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Zoey Deutch
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		For all the drama we all have with our families and all the tension and hostility, I couldn't have done this without my family. Being the people that they are - they're crazy - made it possible for me to be crazy and to live a lifestyle of my own design.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dan Colen
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I was about 13, I met the coolest, chicest young woman I had ever seen. She was a neighbor of mine who became a fashion designer and had a small design studio. She taught me so many things about style and fashion. I had always loved making things, so when she told me about her career in fashion, I knew I had found my path.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Narciso Rodriguez
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I am so I like to design clothes so you don't know what's going on under there.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Rachel Roy
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I was going to design sports cars, but my father came to my college to visit me. At the time he was making a picture in Sweden and he took me there with him. I got to see Ingmar Bergman's company and I thought, 'Gee, filmmaking is a lot more fun than sports cars,' so I decided to follow him and go into acting.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				James Cromwell
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If there is a gay uniform, the differences are in how each man coordinates the details: the brand and cut of the jeans, the design of belts and boots, the haircut, the number and size of earrings.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lance Loud
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It is the greatest injustice done to Mondrian that people who are plastically blind see only decorative design instead of the plastic perfection which characterizes his work. The whole De Stijl group from which Mondrian's art was derived must be considered a protest against such blindness.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Hans Hofmann
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Great French design is often about unexpected touches.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Candice Olson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jack Nicklaus
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Carlos Ghosn
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I love designing bridal. I do not follow trends - I design dresses that are relevant to the times.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Naeem Khan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I can hire out for editing, proofreading, formatting, and cover design, and those are fixed, sunk costs. Once those are paid, I can earn 70% on a self-pubbed ebook.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				J. A. Konrath
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I want to have all that scientific information that we're building be used in designing the future so that people who make geographic decisions - and here it's not just land-use planners, but it's everyone: foresters, transportation engineers, people who buy a house - can analyze all of these information layers and design a future.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jack Dangermond
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Watching my dad, Ralph Lauren, design clothes when I was young, I was always inspired.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dylan Lauren
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We [H&M] believe that growth, profit and sustainability are not contradictory. Our ambition is to be a fair and profitable company, because otherwise we couldn't open any new stores, we couldn't produce new designs and no new jobs would be created. H&M would soon cease to exist.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Karl-Johan Persson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We are all sensible that the king and Tisaphernes have caused as many of us as they could to be apprehended, and it is plain they design, by the same treacherous means, if they can, to destroy the rest.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Xenophon
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Sometimes you design a shoe, and you think this one is a winner, but you never know when something will be such a crazy phenomenon.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Edgardo Osorio