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First Quote by Robin Day

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“I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function.”

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Well the most successful of course was this Polypropylene chair.

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I think it's really important to use your hands and get close to materials. To be up close to real things like rain and…

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I think there's a tendency for modern man to become dominated by gadgets and machines, taking us further and further away from the things…

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Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil.…

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I've always walked and climbed; spent a lot of time in the arctic and places.

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I think and hope there are far more people aware of the need to look after our future.

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But I think it's important that things endure.

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You've got to build a career and a practice.

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We used to get published a lot. And there was this vodka advertisement... it embarrassed me a lot afterwards.

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I'm not against vodka - they just asked us. They put out some story about us entertaining international celebrities with vodka, which of course…

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There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials,…

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I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.

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I watched the movie 'What We Do in the Shadows' in a packed theater when it first came out.

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When I first started making music, it was learning other people's songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I…

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We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.

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I try to have something in common with my protagonists, especially when I'm writing in the first person.

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