Charles Eames Quotes
I have never been forced to accept compromises but I have willingly accepted constraints.
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The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.
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We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.
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In very simple language, Morrie always seems to be able to explain something that other people would take a chapter for, you know.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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Hey, the TV was my friend. As a child, I always said, 'I want to live in there someday.'
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I didn't get into rap to be no lyrical genius. I got into rap to feed my family and help the people in need around me, that's it. A lot of people say, 'Man, Waka Flocka ain't go no lyrics,' so I was like, 'Yeah, you right!'
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You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
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With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.
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In Mexico, audiences want to see a big discussion around a film - what we expect from Hollywood films worldwide is more of an entertaining show. 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' was a road movie and comedy, but it had a very strong political connotation that sparked a discussion in Mexico that is still going on.
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In films people basically work for the camera, you know, and that's why actors can hate each other and not be speaking to each other and still look as if they're in love because really they're loving the camera loving them.
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I never know what defines you as being posh. I went to a posh school, definitely.
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It isn't always on the front pages, but the horrifying mistreatment and subjugation of women around the globe is very much worthy of more attention.
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The Pledge of Allegiance reflects the truth that faith in God has played a significant role in America since the days of the founding of our country.
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Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.
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It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation.
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When I first started, I didn't really know how to structure a play.
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Fate is written in the face.
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The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small price to pay for having been brought to that dependence. Meanwhile, the trouble is that relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing has yet been done.
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Apple's success certainly reinforces the view that there is a demand out there. How big? It's too soon to say. But it's for real, and it's going to be with us for a long time.
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My record company had to beg me to stop filmin' music videos in the projects. No matter what the song was about, I had 'em out there.
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Be as careful of the books you read as the company you keep.
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Out West all the smells are sucked up out of the baked land by the sun. And it’s as if all the colors in the ground are gobbled up by their sunsets, and so is the blue of the sky. The sky is high and pale and impersonal and you get the feeling it doesn’t belong to you at all, but that it is the property of the chamber of commerce. In the South the sky is humid and low and rich and it’s yours to smell and feel. In the West you’re only an observer. In the West someone sees a flower growing on a mountain and he writes a whole damned pamphlet about it.
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I have never been forced to accept compromises but I have willingly accepted constraints.
