Dan Phillips Quotes

Tile is going to the landfill by the metric ton. All we have to do it gather it up, glue it down to the floor and grout it. Then you have a tile floor, and not just any tile floor: it's a mosaic of your own choosing.

Dan Phillips

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YouDownGlueUpOwnFloor

You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

Jodi Picoult

DayYouEvery DayBadPageWrite

If poverty persists in America, it is not for lack of resources. We lack something else.

Matthew Desmond

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I always used the free room that the G.D.R. allowed me... There was no shadow over my childhood.

Angela Merkel

ChildhoodShadowMeFreeOverRoom

Believing that our greatest need is for the general public to be able to get better information, to have an opportunity to learn better the real issues of the less fortunate, we centered the activities of the Fairness Project on that.

Mike Lowry

OpportunityBetterLearnInformation

I never meant to antagonize anyone.

Mohammed Morsi

NeverMeantAnyoneAntagonize

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

BetterKnowNothingUselessThings

The only reason I was allowed to have a career for a quarter century as an insult comic is because it's all in jest and all for fun.

Lisa Lampanelli

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I hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power they'd like to have. I wanted the ability for someone to just open up my brain and take out the entire first draft and lay it down in front of me so I can just focus on the second, third and fourth drafts.

Judy Blume

PowerHateFocusPeopleMeBrain

Every time someone says, 'You know, we really ought to get together,' if I were really honest, I would ask 'Why?'

Dick Cavett

TimeTogetherGet TogetherSomeone

I bike everywhere.

Douglas Booth

BikeEverywhere

My most memorable design-related encounter was also one of my most life-changing. I met Joyce Rutter Kaye, 'Print''s editor-in-chief from 1998-2008. It was at 6 A.M. on a cross-country flight from New York to Vancouver for the 2003 National AIGA conference.

Debbie Millman

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Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

Christopher Morley

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