Charles E. Bohlen (Charles Eustis "Chip" Bohlen) Quotes
[N]ine-tenths of the people who are in the Home Service don't want to go abroad. They are people who live in Washington and have gotten acquainted with the jungle of this town and know their way around.
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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The great love of my life is music.
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We are bombarded with reasons to stay inside: we're afraid of mosquitoes because of West Nile and grass because of pesticides and sun because of cancer and sunscreen because of vitamin-D deficiency.
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The Peruvian faces are completely different from that faces in Argentina and in Brazil.
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For the Earth is a globe in a void the truth there's no up nor down to it.
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In comedy it helps if there's a friendly atmosphere on the set.
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I know that a ridiculous number of classic serials have been commissioned, and that reviews show a reaction against them. The critics seem fed up.
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Working with Mrs. Clarke at The Gryphon School is when I really began to think of acting as a potential career.
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Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
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Writing is very cathartic for me.
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It's not life or death it's a game and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser.
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Eating vegetarian doesn't mean you have to eat boring, humdrum dishes.
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I'm not really enamored by movie stars.
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The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned.
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Irrespective of who's up against me at tournaments, I have always relied completely on my own strengths to get as far as I can, and tried to adapt my game according to the match-situation.
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You can find episodes like the flu epidemic or war times when mortality rates go up, but sustained increases in mortality for any major group in any society are really quite rare. It's an indication that something is very wrong.
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I don't think you lose culture because you act different cultures.
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I was a full foot taller than any child my age.
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I like to dominate 100 percent. I don't want to just beat you - I want to wear you down.
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If you look across the valley, you can see exactly what I mean: about four beautiful houses, and you think something is happening in each of them. It's like a mural.
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Some movies to me are like vampires – they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.
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We're dealing with music that is being played by traditional instruments in a specifically built building called a concert hall. But classical is not - the reference is wrong, because classical on one hand refers to one period in musical history, which is Mozart, Hayden, Beethoven, which is a fine period in musical history, but it was a while ago.On the other hand, it sort of alludes to some kind of "class," which A, is not true; B, is kind of detrimental to the whole idea. Because the point is that this music is available and it's actually relatively reasonably priced.
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[N]ine-tenths of the people who are in the Home Service don't want to go abroad. They are people who live in Washington and have gotten acquainted with the jungle of this town and know their way around.
