Charles Eames Quotes
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I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.
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I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'
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Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.
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That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
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Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.
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Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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If a guy is skilled at anything, that's attractive. There's something very primal about that and, sure, it can be as simple as figuring out the tip quickly. It's really cool when a guy tips 20 percent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.
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Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.
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I just have an inability to lie.
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The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.
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I always love that phrase, 'Oh, this is a good idea, but it's execution dependent.' As if anything in life is not execution dependent. Breathing is execution-dependent.
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When it's all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.
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I'm a Wisconsin kid, so I like brats and burgers and stuff like that. Cheese curds.
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I think the government should be out of the marriage business and leave marriage to the churches.
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It is a matter of whether one wants to get rich or be rich. We can be rich in Christ Jesus or perhaps get rich in Egypt, but we cannot do both.
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The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
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France in August when you can travel through the entire country without encountering a single pesky Frenchman or being bothered with anything that's open for business.
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The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.
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The most reckless sinner against his own conscience has always in the background the consolation that he will go on in this course only this time, or only so long, but that at such a time he will amend. We may be assured that we do not stand clear with our own consciences so long as we determine or project, or even hold it possible, at some future time to alter our course of action.
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Design may be a solution to some industrial problems.
