Charles Eames Quotes
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.Charles Eames
Quotes to Explore
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
Ingmar Bergman -
I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
Rafael Nadal -
The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
Orison Swett Marden -
If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.
J. R. Moehringer -
The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People are saddened when this happens but not surprised.
S. J. Rozan -
When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
Bear Grylls
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People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
Zhang Yimou -
I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
Dana Carvey -
Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
Frances McDormand -
There's more student debt than credit card debt! Everywhere I go, I run into young people trying to build careers while they keep shelling out money on their education loans. If the economy is looking for a new generation of home-buyers, I can't imagine they'll get it from these folks.
Gail Collins -
But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all.
Gary Sinise -
I'd say it's okay to be political and to be a writer. Those streams can be separate, and they can be connected; for me, they're both. Life is political, and I'm interested in my community and in a lot of issues - some of them American, some global.
Rachel Kushner
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
Nate Silver -
I have already reached out to the janata, and I am only trying to acquaint myself with people's problems.
Indira Gandhi -
I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.
Damian Marley -
Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
Edmund H. North -
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.
Ted Sarandos -
When it's all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.
Fat Joe
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The first step to take to wake up earlier is to have a nighttime routine that not only encourages you to fall asleep but also guarantees you'll sleep soundly each and every night.
John Rampton -
'The End of America' details the 10 steps that would-be dictators always take in seeking to close an open society; it argued that the Bush administration had been advancing each one.
Naomi Wolf -
He drew a circle that shut me out - Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in.
Edwin Markham -
It's difficult for people to visualize from my drawings what it's going to be, so I often find myself talking them into things that they go along with, and when they see what's been made, they are surprised.
James Turrell -
The real meaning of persona is a mask, such as actors were accustomed to wear on the ancient stage; and it is quite true that no one shows himself as he is, but wears his mask and plays his part. Indeed, the whole of our social arrangements may be likened to a perpetual comedy; and this is why a man who is worth anything finds society so insipid, while a blockhead is quite at home in it.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
Charles Eames