______________________________________________________ "WITH MUSIC, WE ARE TRAPPED IN TIME; EACH NOTE IS GONE AS SOON AS IT HAS SOUNDED, AND IT CAN NEVER BE RECONTEMPLATED OR HEARD AGAIN AT THAT PARTICULAR INSTANT OF RIGHTNESS"
-Leonard Bernstein, The Art of Conducting, Omnibus
______________________________________________________ “YOU KNOW, EVERY GENIUS HAD A HANDICAP. BEETHOVEN WAS DEAF. CHOPIN HAD TUBERCULOSIS. WELL, SOMEDAY I SUPPOSE THE BOOKS WILL SAY, ‘LENNY BERNSTEIN HAD A FATHER.’ ”
-Samuel Bernstein, Father of Leonard Bernstein, to the New Yorker, 1958
______________________________________________________ "I DON'T WEAR A MASK FOR THE SAME REASON I DON'T WEAR UNDERWEAR; THINGS GOTTA BREATHE" -Palm Beach Resident at City Hearing on Mask Mandates
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"IT WASN'T HALF BAD. IT WAS A QUARTER BAD" -Mark Lamster, author of Man in the Glass House, on Philip Johnson's project Chelsea Walk
______________________________________________________ "BUT I'M INNOCENT,
BUT I'M INNOCENT,
BUT I'M INNOCENT"
-Harvey Weinstein, to his lawyers, upon hearing his guilty verdict, perhaps conjuring Ruby Slippers...or Beetlejuice.
______________________________________________________ "WE DON'T SEE THINGS AS THEY ARE. WE SEE THEM AS WE ARE."
-Anais Nin...or Immanuel Kant...or the Talmud
______________________________________________________ "I MAY NOT BE RIGHT ABOUT THAT..."
-Tony Kushner to Chris Hayes and Jeremy O. Harris demonstrating a Talmudic approach to ideas
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"IN HEAVEN I'M GOING TO BE MARRIED TO FIVE WONDERFUL MEN: GORBACHEV, PRINCE ALBERT, BILL MOYERS, CHARLIE CHAPLIN AND TRADER JOE"
-Beatrice Wood, in "Mama as Dada" a film on her work and her 105 years of life ______________________________________________________
"CELIBACY IS EXHAUSTING"
-Beatrice Wood ______________________________________________________
"I DON'T WANT TO BE INTERESTING.
I WANT TO BE GOOD."
-Mies Van Der Rohe ______________________________________________________
"I'M GETTING SOUP FOR STANLEY KUBRICK"
-A young Eddie Izzard as he tried to sneak, unsuccessfully, into Pinewood Studios
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"TOTALITARIANISM DEMANDS, IN FACT, THE CONTINUOUS ALTERATION OF THE PAST, AND IN THE LONG RUN PROBABLY DEMANDS A DISBELIEF IN THE VERY EXISTENCE OF OBJECTIVE TRUTH."
-George Orwell
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"WHAT A SMUG FUCKER."
"YEAH, SMUGGER THAN AN ARCHITECT AND A DOCTOR COMBINED"
-Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney on "Catastrophe"
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"IF I'VE DONE IT BEFORE I GET BORED, IF I HAVEN'T DONE IT BEFORE I GET ANXIOUS"
-Stefan Sagmeister from "The Happy Film"
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"I'M MUCH STRONGER AT THINKING ABOUT FOOD THAN I AM AT COOKING IT"
-David Chang in 'Wired' Issue 24-08
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"ISN'T EVERYBODY FUCKING STAGE ZERO?"
-Paula Malcolmson as Abby Donovan in 'Ray Donovan'
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"IT'S NOT LIKE WE'RE LYING ABOUT IT, LIKE FUCKING THERANOS"
-Thomas Middleditch as Richard Hendriks in 'Silicon Valley'
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"SWIM, SWIM, SWIM... AND DIE IN THE SAND."
-Ana Colares AIA, on creative projects in the public sector
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"THERE WILL BE NOBODY LIKE US WHEN WE ARE GONE, BUT THEN THERE IS NOBODY LIKE ANYBODY, EVER
SO THAT'S IT."
-Dr. Oliver Sacks on the prospect of his own death
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"QUITE SIMPLY, WE ARE THE BEST"
-Luigi Caccia Dominioni on Italian Design
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"WE DON'T GO ON WHEN WE'RE READY,
WE GO ON WHEN IT'S 11:30"
-Lorne Michaels on how life, and SNL, works
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"I WOULDN'T DROP SHADOW HELVETICA IF THERE WAS A GUN TRAINED AT MY HEAD"
-Michael Bierut, lecturing at Cooper Union's Great Hall, in response to a specious question about his use of three dimensional type
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"I DON'T THINK IT'S BAD...IT'S JUST NOT THAT GOOD."
-Suzanne Holt, with a polite Englishwoman's assessment of the qualities of a controversial color palette
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"TOUCH ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S WOOD"
-Thomas Heatherwick, touching the floor at Cooper Union's Great Hall for luck and simultaneously telling the audience not to tweet that quote
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"ASK AN ARCHITECT TO SOLVE A PROBLEM AND SOMEHOW THE SOLUTION ALWAYS TURNS OUT TO BE A BUILDING"
-Ralph Caplan, Design Thinker, rephrasing 'to a hammer everything looks like a nail'
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"OY, MIES, WHAT A PILL"
-Morris Lapidus (1902-2001) after a large vodka tonic, on Mies Van der Rohe
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"HE'S A COFFEE JESUS"
-Jeanne Esti on Andrea Illy
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NOW, IN ITS PLACE WE HAVE AN INSIPID “G”, AN OWL-EYED “oo”, A SCHOOLROOM “g”, A HO-HUM “l”, AND A DEMENTED, SHOWBOATING “e”
-Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, on why to hate Google's new logo
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"THE TRUTH IS ELASTIC"
-Elia Tello, US State Dept, Deputy Commissioner Expo Milano 2015, expressing her personal view on veracity
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"SHE'S SUCH A JERK"
-Lena Dunham describing her character Hannah on "Girls"
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"VERY, VERY, VERY SOFT SOUND"
-Anonymous describing how to subtly introduce an idea at a meeting
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"PEOPLE IN THE RICH WORLD LOVE TO DABBLE IN A PAST THEY WERE LUCKY TO AVOID"
-Gordon Conway former president of the Rockefeller Foundation, on Vandana Shiva, in Michael Specter's New Yorker article
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"I NEVER KNEW REM HAD A SENSE OF HUMOR"
-Professor Jerry Wells on hearing of the Alexander Kira "Bathroom" wall at the Venice Biennale
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"I SAW YOUR PAVILION DESIGN...IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL IT MADE ME ANGRY"
-David Rockwell on our design for the USA Pavilion at EXPO Milano 2015
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"THE BOOK OF MORMON IS SO GOOD IT MADE ME FUCKING ANGRY"
-Jon Stewart
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"THEY WERE WORRYING ABOUT BEING ATTACKED BY THE CHEETAH"
-Akiko Busch on why we are indisposed to sleep soundly, based on early man's experience
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"THE WHOLE TRIP FROM BARNEY'S TO HERE HAS BEEN AN OBSTACLE COURSE"
-Anonymous New Yorker
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"IT'S LIKE I'M NUMB. TOM. FORD. HAS LEFT. GUCCI."
-Ian Frazier "No. Please, No." in The New Yorker
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