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"For 200 years, the West has been so dominant in the world that it's not really needed to understand other cultures, other civilizations. Because, at the end of the day, it could, if necessary by force, get its own way."
"The Chinese view the state, not just as an intimate member of the family ... but as the head of the family."
"I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward"
"You can't plan for a seizure of feeling, and for this reason I put everything else aside when I'm inspired."
"Original research starts all inspiration. Get inside the head of the consumer. Understand their needs, hopes and dreams. Deliver to their expectation. Have your team do the work. They will then have the framework for the solution. If they believe and they understand, the results will be their results."
"What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful . . . Great designers also pursue a mission. Great designers design with mankind in mind . . . The crossroads of science and art, innovation and inspiration are what I love about design."
"Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws."
"My television is the tabernacle."
"If we are Christians, we must look like Christ - this is my deep conviction."
"Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone, While pain and guilt still linger here below, Blindness and numbness--these please me alone; Then do not wake me, keep your voices low."
"That's universal - we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what's not universal is our ability to provide every good thing."
"The fact that 98 percent of women in [the U.S.] who are sexually experienced say they use birth control doesn't make sex any less sacred. It just means that they're getting to make choices about their lives."
"I find that time constraints actually make me more productive, and "real world" experiences provide a lot of inspiration to write."
"When Ivy [Wilkes] begins her work in forgery, she doesn't yet know the toll that it will take on her own original work. She even thinks it might be a way to find inspiration. By the time she realizes that she has lost her own voice, she is thoroughly entangled in the forgery mess."
"New York was the inspiration for The Heart of Rock and Roll and Workin for a Livin. There are a lot of songs in the streets of New York."
"Never send a human to do a machine's job."
"Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel."
"I can't help seeing 'Waste Land' as the third in a triptych with my earlier films 'Devil's Playground' and 'Blindsight,' and not least in the awe and gratitude I feel for the group of people who were courageous enough to share their stories with us - and to live lives so rich in inspiration for us all."
"I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that."
"And once I knew a meditative rose That never raised its head from bowing down, Yet drew its inspiration from the stars. It bloomed and faded here beside the road, And, being a poet, wrote on empty air With fragrance all the beauty of its soul."
