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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We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe.
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Myth-making is absolutely necessary to create the simplified images that people live off.
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Some people choose to go on 'American Idol' or another singing contest, and some people choose to beat down barrooms before anyone even knows who they are, in order to get a fan base, so when they do get a record deal, they have that to put in front of a label.
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There are bits and pieces of me probably in every one of my 35 or so books.
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To change the world, you must first change yourself. And baby, that's hard enough.
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Production is the only answer to inflation.
