Charles Eames Quotes
The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?
Quotes to Explore
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I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
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As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
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I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.
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The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
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People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.
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It's easy: if you want to grow the economy, encourage job creation, and increase federal revenue, you support making bonus depreciation permanent. Permanency gives job creators the certainty they need to plan and invest in their businesses, including hiring employees.
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It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.
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The true doctrine is that labor - systematic, effective, congenial labor - is not only a necessity, but is the source of the highest enjoyment.
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
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It's an honor to see that green jacket in the bedroom closet, but I'm not going to become somebody else because I won the Masters.
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Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.
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Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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When the uncultured man sees a stone in the road it tells him no story other than the fact that he sees a stone ... The scientist looking at the same stone perhaps will stop, and with a hammer break it open, when the newly exposed faces of the rock will have written upon them a history that is as real to him as the printed page.
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The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?
