"The general image of a man in an American sitcom is like a complete moron. You'd think the industry was run by a feminist cabal."

-- Hanna Rosin

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“Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition or by computer, by invention or by a system of coordinates, is not good design if it does not communicate.”

Source : "A designer's art". Book by Paul Rand, 1968.
“I'm a child of the downloading age. I remember when I was 10, a friend who went to the same school as me came to our [school's] costume party with a really weird hairdo. She had all these little knots in her hair. I asked her who she was and she said she was BjÃ¶rk. I thought this BjÃ¶rk must be a really cool person, so I got on the internet when I got home and found as much as I could on BjÃ¶rk and I fell in love.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror.”

Source : Moira Johnston (2000). “The Tumultuous History of the Bank of America”, p.49, Beard Books
“There is undoubtedly a lot of pressure that comes with recognition, which can be a good thing and bad thing all at the same time. But if you stay focused and don't lose sight of what you're doing and who you are, you can rise above it.”
“At every show, people I've never seen approach me with the same story: how experiencing my work changed their lives and made them artists or writers or law enforcers or attorneys, believe it or not. It's very humbling and gratifying.”

Source : "Jim Steranko talks comics, his new book and coming to Tampa". Interview with Brandon Jones, www.theglobaldispatch.com. February 29, 2012.
“To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.”
“Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.”

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