Shonda Rhimes (Shonda Lynn Rhimes) Quotes
Most of the women I saw on TV didn't seem like people I actually knew. They felt like ideas of what women are.
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I believe that communal admiration of individuals is healthy for society. It facilitates, in one way, the base of our universal standard, morals, but also publicly espouses the virtue of certain practices that are kind of like 'inherently good' in some kind of ideas of what the good is.
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I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.
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I have new ideas every day, and I always want to take on new challenges.
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Many U.S. organizations believe that I am being barred from the country not because of my actions but because of my ideas. The conclusion seems inescapable.
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The process for producing public policy in Congress is flawed. The process itself kills policy ideas through the bypassing of the rules and procedural decisions that limit discussion.
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My office in Milan is in an old factory. I have all my companies here, including Italia Independent and Independent Ideas.
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My company Independent Ideas worked with Gucci on a special edition Fiat 500.
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Travelling is really great for giving you tons of ideas, but it's really hard to actually record anything on the road.
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I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.
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That's where the good ideas come from: the people, not the boardroom. But you have to be willing to put in the legwork.
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History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
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There was no Internet, not even many cookbooks except the old reference books. So we would sit down at night, a group of six chefs, and we'd exchange recipes and each talk about how we were doing things. It was the only way to learn new ideas.
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A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.
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I could try to incorporate or reflect in my models what it is that an employee, manager, or entrepreneur does: to recognize that most are engaged in their work, form expectations and evolve beliefs, solve problems, and have ideas. Trying to put these people into economic models became my project.
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You used to be able to just call people. You didn't have to be on someone's calendar to have a phone conversation. The telephone was an important and valuable domain of communication, both for casual, friendly chats and for professional exchanges of ideas and information. But no more.
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It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.
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Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
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You don't have to subject yourself to the sweep and rigor of Bourdieu's book 'Distinction' to feel how thoroughly a lower-calorie version of its ideas has been absorbed into the cultural bloodstream.
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I don't think that the Left has a monopoly on bad ideas. I don't think the Right has a monopoly on good ideas.
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I came up during the 'Star Wars' generation and that was sort of the thing I plugged into much more. It was a little before my time and I think it was sort of grappling with these intellectual ideas that were a little advanced for my young mind. At the time. But now I have a much deeper appreciation for it.
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Courage is knowing that you're beaten and forging ahead anyway.
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The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.
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Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.
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Most of the women I saw on TV didn't seem like people I actually knew. They felt like ideas of what women are.
