John Hockenberry Quotes

• Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.

  John Hockenberry

  Design, Different, Brilliance

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• An object imbued with intent — it has power, it's treasure, we're drawn to it. An object devoid of intent — it's random, it's imitative, it repels us. It's like a piece of junk mail to be thrown away.

  John Hockenberry

  Junk, Pieces, Treasure

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• The media doesn't need a conscience; people need consciences.

  John Hockenberry

  Media, People, Needs

  Interview with Ana Marie Cox, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1999.

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• In America access is always about architecture and never about human beings. Among Israelis and Palestinians, access was rarely about anything but people. While in the U.S. a wheelchair stands out as an explicitly separate experience from the mainstream, in the Israel and Arab worlds it is just another thing that can go wrong in a place where things go wrong all the time.

  John Hockenberry

  Israel, America, People

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• The song is just the given. It's how you cover it that matters.

  John Hockenberry

  Song, Matter, Given

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• In general, I think very few people have a sustained interest in news.

  John Hockenberry

  Thinking, People, News

  "The Mother Jones Interview: John Hockenberry" by Ana Marie Cox, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1999.

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• At a moment when distortions of Islam are what feed most Americans, Ibrahim Abdul-Matin has done something both practical and inspiring. He persuades us that the imperiled environment is both common struggle and common ground for people who share, it turns out, more than simply God.

  John Hockenberry

  Struggle, People, Islam

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• Design [is] the emerging ethos formulating and then answering a very new question: What shall we do now, in the face of the chaos that we have created?

  John Hockenberry

  Motivation, Inspiration, Ethos

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