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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I don't think we're going to see the price of oil going down in the near future, that's the reality.
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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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Politicians need money at election time and money to get the vote. Well, more than half of money in election comes from corporate interests whose interests are in polluting the Chinese environment and making products.
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It is not just that secularists happen to reject and oppose religion; it's that there is nothing more to their creed than rejecting and opposing religion. . . . The fact is that secularists are "for" reason and science only to the extent that they don't lead to religious conclusions; they celebrate free choice only insofar as one chooses against traditional or religiously oriented morality; and they are for democracy and toleration only to the extent that these might lead to a less religiously oriented social and political order.
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Philanthropy and social change work are at their best when they are driven by your values and connected to what you care about most.
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Designers should only innovate as a last resort.
