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After the White House what is there to do but drink?

Use your imagination until your big dream feels so familiar that its manifestation is the next logical step.

We designers, we don't work in a vacuum. We need business people. We are not the fine artists we are often confused with.

So we live in an accelerating possibility curve. Perhaps we can't control it, but we can learn to ride it like a surfer on a wave or a bird on a thermal, to use its power to take us where we want to go - to live in uncertainty and yet act with confidence.

The idea of going around to somebody else's flat or house and sitting around in a comfy room and having a really good hi-fi system and listening to a whole album all the way through, then chatting for a few minutes, then maybe putting another album on . . . does that happen today?

God is a specialist at making something useful and beautiful out of something broken and confused.

A rule that may serve for a statesman, a courtier, or a lovernever make a defence or an apology before you be accused.

I don't use iMovie and don't use shitty little cameras to try to prove something or say something because that's a part of the process. We do it just because that's what we like to use.

And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.

I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films.

Child abuse damages a person for life and that damage is in no way diminished by the ignorance of the perpetrator. It is only with the uncovering of the complete truth as it affects all those involved that a genuinely viable solution can be found to the dangers of child abuse.

Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.

All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.

If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to who we were, then we couldn't do better than the Natural History Museum, although it wouldn't contain a single human. The systematic Linnean order, the vast inquisitiveness and range of collated knowledge and beauty would tell all that is the best of us.

Everything that I have is natural - braid, nails - I practically never use cosmetics. They often ask me in the provinces about my braid.

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?

Don't be afraid to use all the colors in the crayon box.

My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is, right on the canvas, definitely not a window into the world.

Money does not make you happy, but the lack of money can cause unhappiness.

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don’t waste your pain; use it to help others.

The cross of Christ is the true ground and chief cause of Christian hope.

What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music.

I've been called a minimalist composer for more than 30 years, and while I've never really agreed with the description, I've gotten used to it.

Be precise in the use of words and expect precision from others