Charles Eames Quotes
The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life.
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Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.
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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.
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I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.
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I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
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I will know him by his eyes.
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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his work intentionally provides clues to a powerful secret... a secret that remains protected to this day by a clandestine brotherhood of which Da Vinci was a member.
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I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
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I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.
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When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
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When you're sick, you present your medicare card, not your credit card...
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I've had three of my own children and spent my professional life thinking about children. And yet I still find my relation to my children deeply puzzling.
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My grandmother told me: 'Never be in debt to anyone or anything.' Which is probably why I've never been financially extravagant - I still go to Costco. I'm always conscious of living within my means.
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The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life.
