"For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing."

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Source : "The Vignelli Subway Map Goes Digital" by Paul Goldberger, www.newyorker.com. September 23, 2011.

Paul Goldberger

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“I'm just thrilled and kind of honored that I still get the chance to do what I love, because that really is the definition of success.”
“You have to be yourself, as models come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. There are girls out there who are more voluptuous and they work better for different sorts of stories.”
“My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.”
“The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.”
“I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.”
“If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't need social approval to go forward. Otherwise, how would you ever do the thing that you are doing?”
“We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.”
“I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art.”

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