Charles Eames Quotes
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I feel very, very blessed.
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The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.
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I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's body language. I have a strong journalistic streak in me, and had I not been a filmmaker, I would have become a film journalist. I have combined my perceptive and journalistic traits to create my own brand of cinema.
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I think that tennis has been in a place for many years without any change. Davis Cup and Fed Cup has always been a very exciting platform for players because it is such an individual sport, and we get to play a team competition. We love being part of a team.
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I need to be able to explain myself in context.
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No one today knows what is indecent.
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I don't put a ton of time into my on-stage style, largely because I'm dumb about clothes. But I have friends who are very smart about clothes, and they teach me things. For the show, I'm mainly concerned with feeling comfortable, being able to jump around and get wild.
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I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized.
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It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!
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I forgot that San Francisco is not an angry city like New York. Gays have gotten what they wanted there over the years, unlike New York, where we had to fight for everything.
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No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
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Whoever stands for 'one China' will get our support. We can have talks with them, and our talks will cover anything.
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I have a knife collection.
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My mum wanted me to go to university.
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The gym is where I get my chill-out time. I try to go six days a week, but when I'm working, that goes down to about three.
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When facing the public, politicians constantly filter their ideas through a political sieve. 'How will this affect the environmentalists, labor, management?' Sometimes the sieve gets so clogged by political taboos that no new ideas pass through.
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The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.
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In Greek mythology, Cassandra was given the gift of prophecy, except - due to her rejection of Apollo's affections - nobody would ever believe her warnings.
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It's self-deceptive to think we're in a post-feminist world when we never tried a feminist world.
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For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.
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You can make bad choices and find yourself in a downward spiral or you can find something that gets you out of it.
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In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
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We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond all senses.
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It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.
