"Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought."

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Source : Baldassare Castiglione (2012). “The Book of the Courtier”, p.35, Courier Corporation

Baldassare Castiglione

#Design Quotes #Effort Quotes #Done Quotes

“When you bring an idea that has no merit to me, and you ask me to comment on it, I'm going to tell you it has no merit.”
“It couldn't sound like a dog, because K9 isn't a dog, but I made it sound as mechanical as possible.”
“I am not a Hemingway aficionado.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate.”
“The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.”
“If you're changing the status quo, whatever move you make is disrupting something else.”
“If something's neither here nor there, where the hell is it?”
“After many years of hip-hop as a nation we should have the sophistication to accept that their are distinctions between the corporate manifestation of hip-hop, sold as a commodity and package with sensational race, sex and violent imagery, and the hip-hop culture that kids are living everyday at a local level, which often doesn't dabble in that terrain.”

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