"Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it."
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"I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous."
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"I started rooting - you know, sticking up joints - with some older guys. By now I had gotten a taste of what the racket world really was - the glamour, the way they dressed, the way they always had a pocketful of money."
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"I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same."
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"I personally like being unique. I like being my own person with my own style and my own opinions and my own toothbrush."
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"I like having my own style; love my work or hate my work, it's my own."
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"If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise."
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"The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work."
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"Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture."
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"Because of styles people are separated. Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own."
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"Personality begins where comparison ends."
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"I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty boring."
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"Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art."
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"Elegance is refusal."
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"Where there is no style, there is no slave. Martial Arts mean honestly expressing yourself. No style. No slave."
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"Seek freedom from the conformity of styles"
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"Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again on the road to the Ideal."
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"Style comes from knowing who you are and who you want to be in the world; it does not come from wanting to be somebody else, or wanting to be thinner, shorter, taller, prettier."
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"In the computer industry, you've got an interdisciplinary team of people who can come together, attack the problem, and work in a collaborative style. You knock down one problem after another, cobble things together, and then hopefully turn the crank at some point."
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"To be bound by traditional martial art style or styles is the way of the mindless, enslaved martial artist. But to be inspired by the traditional martial art and to achieve further heights is the way of genius."
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