Shonda Rhimes (Shonda Lynn Rhimes) Quotes

Perfect is boring and dreams are not real. Just... do. So you think, "I wish I could travel." Great. Sell your crappy car, buy a ticket to Bangkok, and go. Right now. I'm serious.

Shonda Rhimes

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• I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Wish
  • Poverty

• I'm a family guy, so I would love to have a family; I would love to find that perfect person to have a family with.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Family
  • Love
  • Perfect

• My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Dream
  • Black
  • Me

• At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Men
  • Art
  • Man

• I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws.

  

  Laura Lippman
  • Perfect
  • Honest
  • Nostalgia

• New York as an industry is the best city for real estate. You're in a very transparent market. If you need to liquidate, you make three phone calls and you could sell something, even in the worst market. It is also less forgiving; if you make a mistake you can lose money.

  

  Aby Rosen
  • Real
  • Money
  • City

• Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Real
  • Movie
  • Religion

• I've been extremely fortunate in my life. So I actually believe that I'm the living embodiment of living the American dream.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • Life
  • Believe
  • American

• I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • War
  • Peace
  • Stop

• Trying to design the perfect plan is the perfect recipe for disappointment.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Trying
  • Perfect
  • Design

• Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

  

  Fanny Brice
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Wish

• I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

  

  Man Ray
  • Wish
  • Existence
  • Paint

• Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Life
  • World
  • Real

• We are trying to create a nation that has never before existed, of all the races, tribes, cultures and creeds of Earth, where all are equal. In this utopian drive for the perfect society of our dreams we are killing the real country we inherited - the best and greatest country on earth.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Country
  • Real
  • Trying

• I know you need to go,But before you do I want you to know, that IWish you the best.And I wish you nothing lessThan every thing you've ever dreamed of.And I hope that you find love along the way.But most of all,I wish you'd stay.

  

  Brad Paisley
  • Hope
  • Wish

• Dream that the lips once breathlessMight quicken if they would;Say that the soul is deathless;Dream that the gods are good;Say March may wed September,And time divorce regret;But not that you remember,And not that I forget.

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • Time
  • Good
  • May

• In order to create real, long-lasting reform, we must create a pathway to legal status for the millions of undocumented immigrants who have made lives for themselves and their families in the United States.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Long
  • Real

• The thing is that what you see on Snapchat, that's DJ Khaled. That's Khaled for real. That's Khaled.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • Real

• Whoso is full of sacred (religious, moral, humane) love loves only the spook, the 'true man,' and persecutes with dull mercilessness the individual, the real man.

  

  Max Stirner
  • Real
  • True
  • Religious

• All the female characters in 'The Gifted' are stronger than the men. We're not waiting around to be saved but spearheading the missions.

  

  Jamie Chung
  • Men
  • Waiting

• You can see my decision as either a distinctive factor or as a limitation. I don't feel it is a limitation.

  

  Ennio Morricone
  • Decision

• I think, when I'm on the court, I become with a killer instinct - a real Scorpio.

  

  Ana Ivanovic
  • Real

• It's tempting to think that decisions that are not life-and-death are therefore unimportant, and that the little compromises we make don't matter to our bottom line or our spiritual selves. How many of us are tempted, in business, to make a less-than-ethical decision? To appropriate someone else's idea or fudge some numbers? We have to remember that maintaining our ethical and spiritual selves is absolutely linked with achieving the degree of success we're working toward.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Business
  • Remember

• Perfect is boring and dreams are not real. Just... do. So you think, "I wish I could travel." Great. Sell your crappy car, buy a ticket to Bangkok, and go. Right now. I'm serious.

  

  Shonda Rhimes
  • Real
  • Dream
  • Perfect