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Alec Issigonis Quotes

A camel is a horse designed by committee.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: designer
Nationality: greek
Birth: November 18, 1906 - October 2, 1988

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Design Horse Committee Camel

I believe that if your brain has to get to grips with complicated words, then you won't get Alzheimer's. I'm sure it's not true, but I do believe it.

Words Brain Believe You Complicated

I like kids' work more than work by real artists any day.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Work Day More Real Artists Kids

If you build a career on being a beautiful young woman, that's going to be a short career. I have to establish I can act. I don't want to have to visit the plastic surgeon every two years.

Beautiful Woman Short You Career

Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.

Sit Sofa Ideology Shaped Very Which

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.

Life Poetry You Way Out Empty

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.

Mikhail Bakunin

Weakness Powerful Crime Little Only

He's a good tough producer, yes. But I don't think that he's unreasonable unless he feels threatened. And when somebody's in your home, I think everybody in the home gets threatened.

Good Home Tough Think Yes Producer

I'm never happier than in the bed.

Bed Never Than Happier

Presented with a song like Exit Music, It's impossible to know what to add without actually making it worse. How can you play along when It's already there?

Jonny Greenwood

Music Song Impossible You Play Know

In the 1930s, the government paid writers to interview 80- and 90-year-old former slaves, and I read those accounts. I came away realizing - not surprisingly - that many slave masters were sadists who spent a lot of time thinking up creative ways of hurting people.

Colson Whitehead

Time Creative Government People Up

I am hoping very much to get re-elected but it is going to be a tough fight.

Fight I Am Tough Going Get Much

You don't fall in love with someone because they're perfect and meet your requirements - you fall for the things that are different about them or even problematic.

Love Someone You Fall Perfect Meet

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