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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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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Every day I remind myself of all that I have been given. … With singing, you never know when you are going to lose the voice, and that makes you appreciate the time that you have when you are still singing well. I am always thanking God for another season, another month, another performance.
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I have been known to play a few rounds in my time. I'm not obsessive; I don't play in the dark, but even that's not out of the question because Stevie Wonder is also a golfer.
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To fish in troubled waters.
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One of the first things I picked up when I was very, very young out of a record store was work from Peter Saville - the early things he used to do for Factory Records.
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Meditation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.
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Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.
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Designers should only innovate as a last resort.
