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Janine Benyus Quotes

Per capita, I would say that Australia has more biomimetic projects going than many other countries I've been to.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1958

Topics

Say Australia More Going Been Would

When I was 49, I posed for Playboy - I was very flattered to be asked. I was quite honoured, really, considering that most of the models they feature are in their twenties.

Twenties Most Quite Playboy Very

I'm not thin, but I'm strong - plus my balance is such that I can navigate a flight of stairs with a basket of laundry and a stack of Pottery Barn catalogs, vaulting over cat-and-dog hurdles, never once spilling my coffee.

Coffee Balance Strong Stairs I Can

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Language Speech Dead Willing Spoken

It's a legacy thing, and when it's all said and done, I want to leave a legacy in whatever way. If not, if it's helping the division, if it's fighting big names, I just want to be remembered as one of the greatest all-time to ever do this in the sport. That's just what I want to do.

Legacy Fighting Said Done Want Way

Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.

Mind Innocence State Could Discrete

When you go to a site, you usually run into usability problems pretty quickly. They're not hidden. They're not complicated. They're not baffling. They were in the design or crept into the design.

Problems Design You Complicated Run

I don't write plays for them to be turned into movies.

Movies Write Turned Them Plays

I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?

Happiness Tragedy Emotions Understand

There must be a little memory bank, a library or storage unit in my brain, that just tucks away memories of other people. I suck in as much of life as I can. I don't do it deliberately - I'm just curious. Dangerously so. I collect visual and aural patterns, physical human patterns, from experience.

Life Memories Experience Curious

In a way, writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet to use it from the heart of a crowd as opposed to as an individual performance is a conflicting thing. I do stand alone, and yet it's not about being an individual or being ambitious.

Heart Alone Writing Performance Way

I encourage women to wear color, wear stripes, wear sequins - just wear what makes you feel confident and strong. If it looks good and fits well, you'll look great and feel great, too.

Ashley Nell Tipton

Good Women Great Color Strong Look

I once thought I would never be able to kick a ball again.

Thought Never Ball Kick Able Again

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