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  Globe Pendant Light with Edison Bulb

  Available here.

• If you work really hard and are kind, amazing things will happen.

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  Quovis Collection from DWR

  See it here.

• I like to build things, I like to make things. So whether it's building a company or building a brand or building a store or building a movie, that's what makes me happy. That's what I love to do.

• We do live in a material world. Velvet feels good. Cashmere feels good. Colors excite us because we can see. So there is a certain enjoyment to be gained by materialism and the material world. But you have to keep it in perspective, because really, it's nothing. We don't own anything in our life. We don't own anything in the world. I usually just think of it as a bunch of stuff that I'm swimming through in this life to go from here to wherever I go afterwards. But I have to say, I do struggle as I am attracted in some way to beautiful things yet at the same time I am actually very aware of, in some sense, their lack of value and that the most important things in life are your connections with other people.

• Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.

• Taraxacum 88 Suspension Light

  

  

  "Taraxacum is the scientific name for the plant commonly known as dandelion, but unlike a weed that can become a lawn pest, the Taraxacum 88 is sculptural art that provides direct and reflected light. Hanging from a steel ceiling rose, the structure is made of 20 pressed and polished aluminum triangles that reflect the light of 60 clear globes."

• 47 Table

  

  

  

  Designed by One & Co. for Council, Inc., it's called the 47 table because "47" is the atomic number of silver, and the height of the table is 47cm.

• Link LED Task Lamp

  

  

  

  Designed by Peter Stahis for Pablo Designs.

• People fall short of the greatness of Rock and Roll. They're all scared, and all the people that could be real rock stars get scared and run away from popular culture. It takes so much for someone like me or Eminem to come back and embrace it and say that we have to deliver this message on a major level to make a difference. It's such a shame that all your favorite artists are so underground. It's like it's not cool for people to hear s*it anymore, and that's the hipster justification of failure.

• All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.

• The more stickers that are out there, the more important it seems. The more important it seems, the more people want to know what it is. The more people want to know what it is, the more they ask each other, and it gains real power from perceived power.

• You also have to ask yourself as an artist, 'What would be more appealing … to have made the Mona Lisa painting itself or have made the merchandising possibilities — putting a postcard on everyone's walls all over the world? Both are brilliant, but in a way I would probably prefer the postcards — just to get my art out there.

• I'm thankful to all those who said 'no' because of them, I did it myself

• Within 15 minutes it was pretty clear he was a better programmer than I was, that he was a better lawyer than my lawyer, and probably a better engineer than my engineer.

• I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

• Never go into a fight thinking what the other guy is going to do to you, only what you're going to do to him.

• Idea file: Search for Movies

  Someone should make one stop search engine that checks the various movie services for availability.

  ex: Available to Rent/Buy on Itunes, Netflix, Amazon, etc...

  I hate to pay a rental fee on a movie I could have watched on Netflix, it's also tiring searching the separate services to get a hard to find movie.

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  Cut restaurant in Beverly Hills, tables and chairs are Herman Miller.