#desi

We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn't we have a fashion designer as a senator? ↗

— Tom Ford

#designer #fashion #fashion designer #governor #had

I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It's not designed for any age group. It's not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit lyrics but that's because you need it. ↗

— Vanilla Ice

#age group #album #any #because #contains

All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#desire #importance #natural #needed #others

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#deeper #design #dig #funny #how

The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#although #chew #commitment #design #get

My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future. ↗

— Alfred Jodl

#been #brighter #brighter future #confidence #desires

We were both very much the same. We were both very impulsive. We both loved life. We both loved shopping. We both had a love of clothes, obviously, because he was the designer that I kind of wore forever and ever. ↗

— Elton John

#both #clothes #designer #ever #forever

For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#actions #censored #change #character #dangerous

In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#center #change #characters #conflicts #defining

If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having. ↗

— Denis Johnson

#assured #closer #desire #end #experience