Charles Eames Quotes
Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.
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I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
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I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.
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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
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The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.
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I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
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No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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Just as the Internet brought the cost of disseminating information down by an order of magnitude, bitcoin brings the cost of transferring ownership down by an order of magnitude.
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I watch a lot of sports. One of the reasons I watch is to see how these guys handle pressure, how they respond to situations.
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Thirty was a big deal for me. It was the age where I reevaluated everything - how I approached life and how I thought about myself. When I look at my 20s, or when I look at any period in my life, I think about how much time I've wasted trying to find the right man.
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If that many people recognize how hard I go every night and what I put into my game, to make myself and my team better, it means a lot to mean. I'm fortunate; I'm blessed to be in the situation that I'm in right now.
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I'm not the type to call people out.
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Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.
