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A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add but when there is nothing left to take away.

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Category: Design

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. We can no longer waste time and money. Every day more than 2 000 girls in America age 15-19 give birth – in the wealthiest most educated nation in the world! Neither you nor I should accept this statistic.
  • 2. Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.
  • 3. What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I had one drama teacher who was amazing Ms. Perkins. She really tried to inspire me and get me going.
  • 2. 'Aladdin' was probably my favorite Disney animation when I was a kid. The animation was great and Robin Williams was unbelievable as the Genie. 'Aladdin' was an amazing adventure and the lead character was a hero for guys which I loved. It wasn't a princess or a girl beating the odds it was a street rat. That seemed really cool to me.
  • 3. The body is an amazing machine… If you eat the right things your body will perform incredibly well!

3 Anger

  • 1. When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.
  • 2. Words can be said in bitterness and anger and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away they just echo around.
  • 3. Fear is the only true enemy born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse hopefully enduring and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
  • 2. Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
  • 3. I didn't make my first solo record until 1981 so I don't have any 60's or 70's recordings but I am working on a large boxed set called DUST to be released next year the 20th anniversary of my first solo record.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
  • 2. Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.
  • 3. At a certain point I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.
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