Chester Bowles Quotes
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We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.
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I take my work seriously.
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I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year.
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When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.
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The fashion world doesn't know the word 'stop,' so you have to make sure there are sublime moments every day.
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It is the mistake of a coxcomb, whose experience of affection is all to come-if it ever comes-to say that women are won by mere good looks. Though it does not owe its birth to them. Gratitude and Vanity are the nurses that rock the cradle of Love.
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Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.
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Our interests are very much aligned. Our attempts of cooperation are very much aligned.
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'What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?'
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If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed.
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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.
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'Commercial' is not the word that has to be said only by CEOs. It has to be something that is maybe the essence of design, because design has some sort of art in it and creation, but it's also some object that you have to use. There is also this pragmatic end to it.
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I had fallen in love once with someone, and I remember it being so distinct, where after the first time they'd hug me, I never wanted another man to ever touch me ever again.
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I'm not going to give up doing interesting things. I'm going to do it as long as I possibly can and hopefully have longevity in this business.
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I've always acknowledged my debt to Hammer. I've always said I'm very grateful to them. They gave me this great opportunity, made me a well known face all over the world for which I am profoundly grateful.
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I built a company; now, I would like to shrink a government and grow an economy.
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I love' Les Mis,' and I owe it a lot, because I wouldn't have been born without it.
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I had always done these 3D things that you could walk through. They were always done off the seat of my pants without blueprints or course.
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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
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My personal life may be crowded with small petty incidents, altogether unnoticeable and mean; but if I obey Jesus Christ in the haphazard circumstances, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God, and when I stand face to face with God I will discover that through my obedience thousands were blessed. When once God's Redemption comes to the point of obedience in a human soul, it always creates. If I obey Jesus Christ, the Redemption of God will rush through me to other lives, because behind the deed of obedience is the Reality of Almighty God.
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My feeling about growing up in New Jersey was, 'How come I'm not in New York?' That being said, I'm older and I have a better worldview now, and so I think I grew up in an incredibly privileged position. The town I grew up in is beautiful. I got a great education, and I'm very grateful for it.
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Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?
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Production is the only answer to inflation.
