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"My feeling is unless they've somebody lined up and they are convinced he is going to be better than Brian, I think their decision has been made in haste."

"New Zealand's taken some very significant decisions in relation to defence in the last two years."

"The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?"

"Most of us see Justice O'Connor as something of an icon, although we do not agree with all of her decisions."

"Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it."

"There is a tremendous amount of support for the approach we have taken, which again is to base our decisions on risk analysis and thoughtful scientific process."

"A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion."

"As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection."

"One thing that most comic artists avoid is showing decisions. They show action, sure, and they show results, but they don't show (because it's difficult to show) the hero or the villain making a choice."
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"It is important for me that a certain depth and variety of both exist next to each other. I am very careful not to sacrifice the one for the other."


"Some things can be perfectly expressed by sound alone and images would only be disturbing. Other times, sound would be possible, but visuals are much stronger and closer to what I want to express and then again, they sometimes overlap perfectly."


"Starting off, all options are always open, but as soon as you choose something, you inevitably limit yourself. If you go for B, A is out."


"I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding."


"When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it."


"It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence."


"I always try hard to arrange all media in a way so that it expresses what I want - this is not limited to one medium alone and varies from case to case."


"I usually create sounds and have different generators running over it. You know you can open a word-file as a picture or the other way round. I do the same with sounds."


"One often thinks that using 2 different things like visual and sound lead to 2 different conclusions - to a different content - but in in my case it is all one."
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