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617 Designer Quotes

New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. There is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy.

American Beautiful Birth Canal
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I've learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.

Building Deadline Decades Learned
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Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you'll start thinking waaay outside the box.

Box Closer Deadline Deadlines
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Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for movies, I've regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.

Animate Before Chocolate Complex
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Lists are how I parse and manage the world.
How Lists Manage World
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Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting. Breaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your thoughts, but it can also force you to confront the depth of your ignorance and the hugeness of the task. That's OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.

Also Big Breaking Confront
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Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability.

Also Arranging Came Course
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I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it. It's a pointless delay that wrecks my pace - and mood.

Able Being Delay Despise
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I'm obsessed with the form of a toolbox. The idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something inside me. It's like Batman's utility belt.

Batman Belt Everything Form
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The coolest toys don't have to be bought; they can be built. In fact, sometimes the only way they'll ever exist is if you make them yourself.

Bought Built Coolest Ever
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Technology is usually there to let some process go on hidden in the background. For us on 'MythBusters,' we're always trying to make the process apparent. So, we have learned to try and never rely on a technological solution when an analogue one is in front of us.

Always Apparent Background Front
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I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I'm more optimistic than pessimistic.

Am Debate Discussion Edward
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The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime. Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability to allow a framework where all voices can be heard.

Ability Advancement Allow Architecture
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Walking the floor at a con dressed as Chewbacca, you might as well be Bono. I mean it's ridiculous. People just walk up and grab you and hold you, because they love Chewbacca so much.

Because Bono Con Dressed
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I think LEGOs are one of the best toys ever developed.
Best Developed Ever I Think
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I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted. That's a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.

Age Could Early Early Age
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I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.

Actually Children Church Continue
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The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one. One worth clinging to. But you don't need religion to appreciate the ordered existence. It's not just an idea, it's reality. We're discovering the hidden orders of the universe every day.

Appreciate Clinging Day Discovering
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From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.

Difficult Done Earliest Figure
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I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you're here. And when you don't, well, you suffer the consequences.

Adulthood Care Consequences Defining
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Don't work for fools. It's not worth it. Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run.
You Like Believe
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I find that your basic Internet chat board is way too vitriolic for my taste.

Internet Technology
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Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can't cash.

Brain Reality Check
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I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.
Believe I
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Believe in yourself and your dreams. Believe in God, he will never take you beyond where you are not supposed to be.

Believe Dreams Believe in God Beyond
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It was constant dedication to building the brand. As an entrepreneur, I don’t see obstacles. The constant drive is to make a success of the business side of it.

Dedication Brand Obstacles Drive
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Fashion is kinda a joke. I don't get too bogged down in the clothes. For me, it's one big art project, just a canvas to show that fashion should have a brand which has someone behind it who cares about different contexts. Social things.

About Art Behind Big
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The fashion consumer likes a high-low mix - I want to be a brand that represents that.

Brand Consumer Fashion Likes
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Music needs a visual element to make it tangible. So, naturally, there's gonna be a synergy between high-level art direction and high-level albums.

Albums Art Between Direction
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Kanye's the best. He really, really is. He's cool. And why we've always gotten along is because we can just sit down and talk about art.

About Along Always Art
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I like the idea of a fully realized collection with artists.

Artists Collection Fully Idea
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The whole point of collaboration is that you give and take from each other, and that's how you create things that are totally new.

Collaboration Create Each Give
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Whenever I'm doing a collection, I'm inspired by the world around us.

Around Collection Doing Inspired
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I do fashion to tell a narrative.

Fashion Narrative Tell Story
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What I love about tennis is the gracefulness. It's an aggressive and powerful game, but it takes touch and finesse.

About Aggressive Finesse Game
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For me, there's a subtlety in focusing on the right shape of T-shirt and pant. I recognise that it's boring, but the idea is to catch people off-guard and reward them in some valuable way.

Boring Catch Focusing Idea
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I'm a kid from Chicago. I know what it was like to see Obama become president. We felt the tectonic plates of the world shift.

Become Chicago Felt Kid
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The most important message is to let me just focus on making the most beautiful normcore clothes, but as luxurious as possible.

Beautiful Clothes Focus Important
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For me, I analyze the modern girl, the girl that I'm friends with, and they're empowered: They pay their own bills. They have their own style. They wear clothes - the clothes don't wear them.

Analyze Bills Clothes Empowered
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All I do all day is think of ideas and implement them. That's an industry, you know. I'm trying to make art on a commercial scale.

All Day Art Commercial Day
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There's no line between a designer and consumer.
Between Consumer Designer Line
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I hate being up onstage with a microphone.
Being Hate Microphone Onstage
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My first degree was in structural engineering, which is super-boring.

Degree Engineering First Structural
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People that are able to think in terms of concepts and offer us valuable forms of art are very exciting to me.

Able Art Concepts Exciting
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Fashion and music are two great artistic forms that can be molded by the youth culture - our taste and our passion for evolving things in our limited time on earth allows us to look at things with fresh eyes.

Artistic Culture Earth Evolving
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I'm not really into style. I'm more into confidence or having something to say.

Confidence Having More Really
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When creativity melds together with global issues, I believe you can bring the world together.

Believe Bring Creativity Global
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I don't have to choose between high fashion or streetwear. My brand reminds me that it doesn't have to fit in a box. It can just be in a gray area.

Area Between Box Brand
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I've always had this in some ways pessimistic and in some ways realistic idea that I'm the lowest rung on the ladder.

Always Had Idea Ladder
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I don't come up with ideas in a test tube; I come up with ideas by breaking test tubes. That's how I've always been.

Always Been Breaking Come
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