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Your Playing Small

“Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.”

- Marianne Williamson

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My Bubble World

Note: This post was originally published on my first blog, Modite, and is now archived here.

“A year from now, I could go away, and people might say, ‘Gosh, what ever happened to that girl who never wore pants?’ But how wonderfully memorable 30 years from now, when they say, ‘Do you remember Gaga and her bubbles?’ Because, for a minute, everybody in that room will forget every sad, painful thing in their lives, and they’ll just live in my bubble world.”

- Lady Gaga in New York Magazine (via Nisha Chittal)

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Kanye on Creativity

Note: This post was originally published on my first blog, Modite, and is now archived here.

There’s no such thing as fact anymore, only opinion. The closest thing we have to fact is “common opinion”. Everything is an opinion. The way you dress is an expression of your opinion. Your religious beliefs are your opinion. The music you turn up loud is your opinion. For most people it’s easier to just agree. For me the hardest thing is to ‘just’ agree and that is what sparks creativity, the feeling that something can be better, the feeling that something’s missing. The feeling that something’s needed.

- Kanye West (via Frank Chimero)

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Nothing is original…

Note: This post was originally published on my first blog, Modite, and is now archived here.

via Pikaland.

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Come Together/Fall Apart

Note: This post was originally published on my first blog, Modite, and is now archived here.

“We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.”

– Pema Chödrön (via The Mindfulist)

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The world needs anger…

Note: This post was originally published on my first blog, Modite, and is now archived here.

“The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn’t angry enough.”

- Bede Jarrett, Dominican Priest

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I have only ever designed…

Note: This post was originally published on my first blog, Modite, and is now archived here.

“I have only ever designed products that I myself would like to live with so it goes without saying that we live with Braun products and Vitsoe furniture. As a designer, it is only by using your products daily that you are able to tell what sorts of improvements may still be needed.”

- Dieter Rams in Simplicity, purity and openness (via 37 signals)

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Inspiration…

Note: This post was originally published on my first blog, Modite, and is now archived here.

“I don’t believe in it. People think some muse comes down and strikes. Well, making a dance is just plain work like anything else. The inspiration is the deadline.”

- Paul Taylor in the New York Times Magazine (via Greg Tracy).

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Maybe it was me…

Note: This post was originally published on my first blog, Modite, and is now archived here.

Recognition for Ms. Herrera came a few years after her husband’s death, at 98, in 2000. “Everybody says Jesse must have orchestrated this from above,” Ms. Herrera said, shaking her head. “Yeah, right, Jesse on a cloud.” She added: “I worked really hard. Maybe it was me.”

- At 94, Carmen Herrera Is Art’s Hot New Thing, and Enjoying It via The  New York Times

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I look the way I look…

Note: This post was originally published on my first blog, Modite, and is now archived here.

I look the way I look. There’s nothing I can do about that short of getting the knife out. I remember talking to Gary Oldman—we came up together years ago. We agreed we were basically a couple of pasty-faced Londoners, but if we got our foot in the door, we’d probably last longer than the pretty boys. So far I think that’s paid off.

- Tim Roth of Lie to Me (via Psychology Today).