Charles Eames Quotes
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Suzhou is an ancient city full of old gardens that are very famous in China. It is very beautiful. Plus, I met my boyfriend there!
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We've been probably to some degree too successful.
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I want to be my own person.
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Literature is memory written down. All literature is memory.
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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
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I was very young during 'Chachi 420' and don't remember much now.
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All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself?
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The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
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I like Lady Gaga because I like that she pushes the envelope.
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We live in a technical society.
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The most important thing is to stay positive.
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Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
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My most famous show is the 'Kitchen Show.' More famous than any gallery show or museum show I curated.
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As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.
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Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.
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It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo.
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Grant us the single heart once more That mocks no sacred thing, The Sword of Truth our fathers wore When Thou wast Lord and King. Let darkness unto darkness tell Our deep unspoken prayer; For, while our souls in darkness dwell, We know that Thou art there.
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You work here on the farm simply without philosophizing; sometimes the work is hard and crowded with pettiness. But at times you feel a surge of cosmic exaltation, like the clear light of the heavens... . And you, too, seem to be taking root in the soil which you are digging, to be nourished by the rays of the sun, to share life with the tiniest blade of grass, with each flower; living in nature's depths, you seem then to rise and grow into the vast expanse of the universe.
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You're more inclined to be cynical about your own country, and you romanticize it from the outside. And why not? It's much more interesting than thinking, 'Oh, everyone's struggling and normal.'
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I could see he didn’t understand that knowing a person is about more than knowing whom they fantasize about. That’s the small stuff, actually. Not the big stuff. The big stuff is lying next to a guy on the floor and locking eyes and having deep conversations about philosophy. The big stuff is letting a friend know your hopes and your fears and not having to make a joke about it. That’s what matters
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His petty syllabi, the sounds that stick, Inevitably modulating, in the blood. And war for war, each has its gallant kind. How simply the fictive hero becomes the real; How gladly with proper words the solider dies, If he must, or lives on the bread of faithful speech.
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Designers should only innovate as a last resort.
