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 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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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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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 like to dominate 100 percent. I don't want to just beat you - I want to wear you down.
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Larry Hagman and I are very old friends.
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I was educated to think maybe Brazil works, maybe it doesn't. But I decided I am going to make this country work for my children. I am investing all my effort now in making Brazil a great country.
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It's weird what a last name will do. I changed it to 'Milian,' and next thing you know, I was working and getting auditions and stuff, and it was crazy.
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Music helped me to get out of a rough period in my life when I really struggled to see any future for myself and was terrified about what was happening to the people around me.
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Sometimes, taking a job is like going to a shrink or something, where you get to know yourself better.
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The Devil turns his back to a door that is shut.
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I would never do crack. I would never do a drug named after a part of my own ass, okay?
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Amplius iuuat uirtus quam multitudo.
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I got shot. I always felt like I'd be shot. Somebody was trying to do me some harm because a lot of people don't like me. But I didn't think it was gonna happen at that particular moment.
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When the fire goes out, you'll start feeling the cold. You'll wake up whether you want to or not.
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When a dad admits he is wrong or asks for help, he allows the child to see him- or herself as adequate even when she or he is also wrong. It encourages children to make suggestions and, therefore, to discover their creativity because they have a chance of making a contribution. – page 120.
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Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation.
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With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday threats to our mortality - threats that, while they may also be functions of human error, have become so ubiquitous that we've begun to apprehend them as natural phenomena.
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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.
