Shonda Rhimes (Shonda Lynn Rhimes) Quotes

I'm a black woman every day, and I'm not confused about that. I'm not worried about that. I don't need to have a discussion with you about how I feel as a black woman, because I don't feel disempowered as a black woman.

Shonda Rhimes

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• I was a confused young girl with so much tragedy. Sometimes when you're going through stuff, the last person you're thinking exists is God. I mean, it was my confusion, the anger that was in my heart, all that drama. But thank God I know God now, okay?

  

  Tasha Smith
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Heart

• I don't think the folks in the low-tax states really want to go into a fairness discussion. Residents of Connecticut and New York would love to remind them how much they pay in federal taxes to support programs for Mississippi and South Dakota.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Pay
  • Discussion
  • Fairness

• I would say 'The Master' was one of the most inspiring things I've ever got to work on.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Work
  • Things
  • Inspiring

• I think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of this stuff is genre-less.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Experience
  • Age
  • Confused

• Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Up
  • Different
  • Bad

• If we'd had another carefree 70's, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Remember
  • Know
  • Dead

• Californians are worried about whether they will have a job along with ballooning federal spending and deficits.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Job
  • Will
  • Worried

• Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Decision
  • Goal
  • Discussion

• My so-called bad dress-sense phase happened when I was confused - I think I was taking advice all too often, without listening to my inner voice. Add to the fact that I was a little overweight; so every wrong 'outfit' got compounded all that much.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Bad
  • Listening
  • Advice

• There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these are books for adults. Actually, they're just stories, and if they're good stories, then they surpass those boundaries.

  

  L.A. Weatherly
  • Good
  • Always
  • Discussion

• Your body has something in the neighborhood of 40 trillion cells - quite a consulting committee. Call on it when you're confused or undecided. Relax quietly and ask your body what it has to say.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Body
  • Relax
  • Confused

• If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Job
  • Husband
  • Confused

• Our love for children is so immediate in part because we feel their powerlessness immediately; conversely, part of the way we deny our love for men is by denying men’s powerlessness. Too often we have confused love for men with respect for them, especially for their power to take care of us--which is really just love for ourselves.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Children
  • Power

• Fleabag knows men and women are equal and should be treated as such, but what she's confused about - and what I was confused about - was the idea that wanting bigger boobs doesn't mean you don't want equal rights.

  

  Phoebe Waller-Bridge
  • Men
  • Women
  • She

• Yes, I made mistakes by rebelling, by acting out in confused ways.

  

  Jennifer Capriati
  • Confused

• I sometimes think my earnestness is confused for stupidity, but it shouldn't be.

  

  Jenny Slate
  • Confused

• I hate it when I'm reading a comic, and the dialogue looks like stickers stuck on top to explain what's going on. For me the best is when your eye goes in a certain point and moves through the composition and then springs out on the dialogue, or gets confused in the image and then goes to the dialogue for an explanation.

  

  Denise Mina
  • Hate
  • Reading
  • Confused

• In our national discourse and in pursuing our national agenda, we must never leave anyone behind. We must reach out to the many who may have been disaffected and left confused by political games, deceit and showmanship. The people first must transcend every level of society.

  

  Najib Razak
  • People
  • May
  • Society

• One must remember equality, yet also be aware of difference, for if the people are allowed to act as it pleases them without coming up against displeasure, if one gives rein to its desires without setting [any] limit, it becomes confused and can no longer take delight in anything.

  

  Xunzi
  • People
  • Giving
  • Equality

• When I first found out that I was an Idol finalist, I cried tears of happiness. I was just so happy, and my family was there and the fact that got to see that moment and share that moment with me was just everything to me.

  

  Pia Toscano
  • Family
  • Happy
  • Tears

• You have to stop thinking logically to argue that the universe came into being by itself, out of nothing.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Thinking
  • Stop
  • Universe

• I'm a black woman every day, and I'm not confused about that. I'm not worried about that. I don't need to have a discussion with you about how I feel as a black woman, because I don't feel disempowered as a black woman.

  

  Shonda Rhimes
  • Confused
  • Inspiring
  • Worried