Charles Eames Quotes
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I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
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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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The one person whom I would like to be is Meryl Streep. Even at her age, she sits alongside the younger heroines at the Oscars with her name in the nominee list, and others around her wonder whether they still stand a chance.
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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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'Curio vult advisari,' as the lawyers say; which means, 'Let us have another glass, and then we can think about it.'
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Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground.
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We must learn to live in the ordinary 'gray' day according to what we saw on the mountain.
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Judging others’ intentions is the right of God alone. We don’t have this right, and it is poor manners with God.
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Design may be a solution to some industrial problems.
