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Geoffrey Beene Quotes

Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: designer
Nationality: american
Birth: August 30, 1927 - September 28, 2004

Topics

Life Me Giving Alive Shape Like

I'm very slow. I'm a slow learner.

Slow Learner Very

If I get even five per cent of my ideas out and documented before I die, I'll be lucky. I'm not in danger of running out of riffs or ideas anytime soon. They overwhelm me and it's hard to find time to deal with them.

Time Me Ideas Die Find Lucky

I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.

Business Believe Better Being Behind

The Meters are, I think, the most influential group in our time to come out of New Orleans, to have changed and introduced us all to a way of playing, and to a groove and a level of feel in playing funk-jazz.

Time Think Feel New Group Way

My ideal kinda guy, if I was really gonna go there even though he's married, is Mark Wahlberg. To me he's a little black and white, the kinda guy who would understand if I pull my weave out.

Black And White Me Black White Go

The people in power have created an obesity epidemic.

Power People Obesity Created

I've never actually even contemplated writing a book or having a book.

Writing Book Never Even Actually

Most work is not coming up with The Next Big Thing. Rather, it's improving the thing you already thought of six months - or six years - ago. It's the work of work.

Work Thought You Improving Up Big

The clothes back in those days were made so much better than clothes are today. They actually took time to make clothes to fit a woman's body. Today they make clothes that fit sizes, so it stretches to fit this and that.

Today Time Woman Better Clothes

I'm not a particularly cerebral writer. I unabashedly go for the belly.

Christopher Buckley

Go Writer Belly Cerebral Unabashedly

Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.

Work Think Understanding Out Hanging

If you aren't learning, you are regressing, because more growth comes from failure than from success.

Learning Success Failure Growth You

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