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Maria Cornejo

"I wanted to start something in New York that focused on making products locally, and because I'd just had my second child didn't want to be traveling halfway across the world anymore. The idea was to have something wearable that fit with my reality, which was being a mom with two young kids and not always wanting to wear jeans. I still wanted to wear interesting clothes, and the options out there I found were either very expensive or very cheap. There was a big gap in the middle."

-- Maria Cornejo

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“The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.”

Source : "U.S.-Soviet Relations, A History" by John Corry, www.nytimes.com. April 17, 1984.
“I have talked about choosing rather than acting from compulsion. When you feel that you have to live according to someone else's direction or live so that you never disappoint or hurt anybody, then your life is a continual assessment of whether or not you please other people.”
“I like living, breathing better than working...my art is that of living. Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral, it's a sort of constant euphoria.”
“One of the common traits of outstanding performers-coaches, athletes, managers, sales representatives, executives, and others who face a daily up/down, win/lose accounting system-is that a rejection, that is, defeat, is quickly forgotten, replaced eagerly by pursuit of a new order, client, or opponent.”
“My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.”
“I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic.”
“Music does not live until it's interpreted - with all of its flaws, mannerisms, etc. It needs to be incarnated to be something.”

Source : Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 29, 2014.
“Never be discouraged, because every wrong turn attempt, when left behind you, is another step forward taking you closer to your goals.”

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