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" I like to do interior design, I love to quilt, I love to see different colors together, and I love to match things up. "

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" One of my most memorable moments serving the community was after I built the Live Civil Playground in Haiti, and I visited an orphanage and gave away shoes to all the kids. I also sat with them and helped them design their shoes. The smiles on their faces were priceless. "

" The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them. "

" Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection. "

" I know who I am. I am not perfect. I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world. But I'm one of them. "

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" I love HGTV. I love working on my house and have really been bit by the 'luxury remodeling' bug. 'Million Dollar Rooms,' 'Million Dollar Listing'... any show that can give me design inspiration, I soak it in and try my hand at it. Home Depot is my second home! "

" We are very proud of our design for the Transbay Transit Center. This will be a beautiful, functional and sustainable building for San Francisco. "

" Design helps shape our everyday interactions through products, furniture, objects, or experiences. "

" 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. "

" It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design. "

" Design is an unknown. "

" If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers. "

" It is so important to be really true to yourself in design, and I am. "

" I'm on my way to a place where I'd never dreamed I'd be, and that's perfection. "

" Architects design houses. I live in a home. "

" You can't get around pain and opposition, but you can try to be joyful in the trial, and thank yourself for the trial, and thank God for the strength to get through it. "

" I think when people have the freedom to tell their own story rather than trying to be specific to a certain design or style, there's more freedom, and it ends up feeling more like home. Those spaces we see in magazines and on the Internet are beautiful, but if there's not that story there, then it's going to lack that feeling of home. "

" Internet safety begins at home and that is why my legislation would require the Federal Trade Commission to design and publish a unique website to serve as a clearinghouse and resource for parents, teachers and children for information on the dangers of surfing the Internet. "

Mike Fitzpatrick

" I have always loved clothes, and the opportunity to design my own line could not be missed. It's a dream job. "

Jasmine Guinness

" Urban planning and design are helping us to shift from a car-centric system to a bike-centric one by making bicycles and bicycle infrastructure superior in functionality and attractiveness. "

Jens Martin Skibsted

" Life is full of trials and tribulations. It's dramatic when you don't treat people right when you're in the tribulations, but I know now how to get out of it. You have to make a decision to say 'No more', and then you know what to do when the trials happen. "

" Nike is the uniform for kids all over the world, and African design has been killed by Nike. Africans no longer want to wear their own designs. "

" I think women should band together to get us more respect in all the businesses that we're in because, you know, if we turn 40, we're nothing and nobody. We all should band together and just say we're not gonna go down like that. "

" You demand respect and you'll get it. First of all, you give respect. "

" Like many other scientists who hold the Catholic faith, I see the Creator's plan and purpose fulfilled in our universe. I see a planet bursting with evolutionary possibilities, a continuing creation in which the Divine providence is manifest in every living thing. I see a science that tells us there is indeed a design to life. "

Kenneth R. Miller

" I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style. "

" My strengths as a businessman lie in the design and sale of women's shoes, and I have never been comfortable with complicated or technical legal or business documents. "

" Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition. "

" I like French fries; I like mashed. I love potatoes. "

" I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment. "

" At one point, I was blogging prodigiously, in the late '90s; and I was getting, like, millions of pages because I was, like, one of the only people writing about web design, and I was always writing about web design. "

Jeffrey Zeldman