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" About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs. "

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" I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design. "

" Obamacare's design flaws were not the fault of the American people. "

" Fashion and interior design are one and the same. "

" People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok. "

" You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality. "

" I design all of my costumes. I like to go out there and feel like I have contributed to every part of what I do. I choose the music, the choreographer, I've obviously chosen my coach, my costumes - all if that falls under my realm of power, my realm of influence. "

" Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold. "

James Randolph Adams

" I have the same sense of discovery and exhilaration from objects of design and everyday use - I am inspired by the buildings in my city, by park greenery and dazzling store windows, by the jaunty strollers and umbrellas and billboards I walk past. Just strolling our streets, we encounter creativity every single day. "

" Building design isn't trendy. "

" I don't like the idea that the first preparation when you start to design your building has to put your label. I think this is not fair. It's not fair to the building or to the people, to the client, because every building tells a different story. "

" Theories cannot claim to be indestructible. They are only the plough which the ploughman uses to draw his furrow and which he has every right to discard for another one, of improved design, after the harvest. "

" You must have the ability to recognize good design and good user experience. These are core things at Airbnb. It doesn't matter which department you're in. "

" I hate these platforms that are all over the place today; they are all about grabbing attention. They are suburban! I never do a platform. Well, I did, in the 1970s, but that was a bad experience. "

" I'm fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff. "

" Visual storytelling combines the narrative text of a story with creative elements to augment and enhance the traditional storytelling process. By design, it is a co-creative process resulting in an intimate, interpretive, expressive technique. "

" Architects design buildings; that's what we do, so we have to go with the flow; and, even though I'm still an old Leftie, global capitalism does have its good side. It's broken down barriers - the Berlin Wall, the Soviet Union - it's raised a lot of people up economically, and for architects, it has meant that we can work around the world. "

" I want to design jewelry for girls and guys... I'ma spread it out, but I'ma design, probably when I'm just designing furniture and buildings, I'll probably being the jewelry thing, too. "

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" Because I am much like Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, I'm such an unconventional political figure that you really need to design a unique campaign that fits the way I operate. "

" Pure art is a noble pursuit. Applied art is a business. That's one reason design firms have been so eager of late to add consulting and manufacturing to their core aesthetic competencies. "

" It may sound ambitious, but I really hope that modern design will spread all around the globe. "

" Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one. "

" Longhorns are unique - each and every one of them is a different color with a different design. "

" I think of each new season as an evolution, not a change in style. "

" At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design. "

" Design firms and progressive companies rely on many of the same tools: rapid prototyping, observational research, creative thinking, collaborative work environments, and multidisciplinary teams. "

" Any product that needs a manual to work is broken. "

" That's something I learned in art school. I studied graphic design in Germany, and my professor emphasized the responsibility that designers and illustrators have towards the people they create things for. "

" America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the next Microsoft or Google, design laws to back the innovator in the garage. "

" Many of my clients have become close friends, and that informs the clothing I design for them. Julianna Margulies was introduced to me by her publicist many years ago, and we've been good friends ever since. "

Narciso Rodriguez