Jean-Claude Biver famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

  • What we have done in the past is not sufficient now to prepare our youth.

  • The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.

  • Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.

  • How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media, and for that matter neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography."

  • Sure, we had to be skinny. I lived on Diet Coke and apples for two years. For the couture, we had to get up at 4 am to be sewn into the clothes and there was huge pressure to be thin. But I made a million dollars by the time I was 20, I bought a town house in Manhattan and put myself through Columbia. Does that make me a victim?

  • There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple - leaves with an early moon.

  • I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a better job.'

  • The Macintosh having shipped, his next agenda was to turn the rest of Apple into the Mac group. He had perceived the rest of Apple wasn't as creative or motivated as the Mac team, and what you need to take over the company are managers, not innovators or technical people

  • We just watch anything speed by. To stop and really ponder what a product label says, or the tagline on a TV commercial, might be inherently silly. Those are things that are almost designed to be thrown away.

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