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You know, in 1975 I couldn't get a job in New York City because I was American. The kitchens were predominantly run by French, Swiss, German, and basically I got laughed at. I had education, I had experience, but got laughed at because I was American.


Emeril Lagasse


#basically #because #city #education #experience

In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it.


Charles Lyell


#ancient #bottom #depth #down #feet

No ordinary effort stops the wheel. In sleep it spins without resistance. Passively, falling deeper, lacking the will to activate any change.


Stephen Demone


#change #new #orange #project #struggle

Universal design systems can no longer be dismissed as the irrelevant musings of a small, localized design community. A second modernism has emerged, reinvigorating the utopian search for universal forms that marked the birth of design as a discourse and a discipline nearly a century earlier.


Ellen Lupton


#modernism #new-media #swiss-style #design

I have a friend who got into a car accident and now has a prosthetic metal leg, metal pins in his hips, and a metal plate in his head. One time I told him that he was like a human Swiss Army knife, to which he replied, “I’m Belgian.


Jarod Kintz


#car-accident #funny #humor #random #swiss

The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.


Henri-Frédéric Amiel


#life

I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal.


Benazir Bhutto


#attention #bank #bank account #divert #gold

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.


Charles Dickens


#china #cows #entirely #ever #farm

And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't just be an actor, I should know about the whole process.


Rene Auberjonois


#actor #always #being #father #going

I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere.


Marissa Mayer


#clean #everywhere #google #i #i think






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