"You know, sometimes people never get to learn how successful they could have been because they give up too easily. If I've learned one thing in all my years in the business, it's that often things don't work out the way you want at first. But that doesn't mean you should give up."

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Russell Simmons

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“Perfection cannot be reached, because nothings perfect. But things can change, and so can people”
“I try to focus on the melodies and try to make everything else minimal. The melody and the lyrics are most important to me.”
“Directors who have inspired me include Billy Wilder, Federico Fellini, lngmar Bergman, John Ford, Orson Welles, Werner Herzog, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, Francis Ford Coppola and Ernst Lubitsch. In art school, I studied painters like Edward Hopper, who used urban motifs, Franz Kafka is my favorite novelist. My approach to film stems from my art background, as I go beyond the story to the sub-conscious mood created by sound and images.”
“I'm not trying to create an image or a persona. I'm just singing because that's what I know how to do.”
“It was different, though, knowing something in your thoughts and then hearing it confirmed, made real, planted in the world like a tree”
“The idea that bigger haystacks have more needles in them is dumb on its face”
“A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small, daily acts of courage which help to preserve man's self-respect and inherent human dignity.”
“For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing.”

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

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