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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
Design

"Kids are taking PCs and the Internet to new heights. They're the ones that are designing the cutting-edge web sites."

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Bruno Heller Writer, Producer
Design

"One of the things about working for an old school studio like Warner Bros. is that there is an institutional culture and institutional memory, in terms of production design, camera work, and directors who understand how to do this kind of thing."

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Ansel Adams Photographer
Design

"Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation ."

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Venus Williams Tennis Player
Design

"My style is kind of eclectic and I don't like to do the same thing over and over again. I like to have fun and explore myself so you won't see the same design."

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Tom Ford Fashion Designer
Design

"I'm not designing clothes for someone who is doing lines of coke off the table, like I was when I was at Gucci and Saint Laurent"

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Serena Williams Tennis Player
Design

"Venus [Williams] has an amazing line; I love her collection. I'm always at her office. She has an interior design company and her EleVen company. They have a wonderful office space and I'm always there for the interior part and get to see what she's doing with EleVen."

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Stella McCartney Fashion Designer
Design

"I'm not offended or embarrassed by the fact that I design clothes for women to wear. So when I meet women who love my clothes, it's a really good, straightforward thing. It makes me feel like I'm doing my job right."

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Neil Gaiman Author
Design

"Nothing [the demon] could think up was half as bad as the stuff [people] thought up themselves. They seemed to have a talent for it. It was built into their design somehow. They were born into a world that was against them in a thousand little ways, and then devoted most of their energies to making it worse."

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"Most men expose themselves in battle enough to save their honor, few wish to do so more than sufficiently, or than is necessary to make the design for which they expose themselves succeed."

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Jim Lee Comic Book Artist
Design

"I have a tendency to do the epic kind of long shot and put in everything that you need to know. And that's by design; that's the kind of approach I take to it."

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