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 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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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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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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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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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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If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves.
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The difference that a drama group or a cinema club can make to a small village or a town. It opens people up to ideas, potential about themselves that really, in a way, education often fails to. It's a way of drawing a community together.
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Early on, I knew I had ideas, but I wasn't sure when it was appropriate to bring them to the table, and I was so intimidated by these titans that I was working for. But it started around the time of 'Tron,' when I was really excited by the creative process and the prep that went into that. I spoke up often at those writing sessions.
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Expose yourself to the products and promotions of other manufacturers, and your own field of new ideas will greatly increase.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.
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When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.
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It all must start with an inspired, spontaneous idea.
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From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy.
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Having more candidates come with a creative and artistic sensibility would actually bring more people out to vote.
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Untouchability of foreign cloth is as much a virtue with all of us as untouchability of the suppressed classes must be a sin with every devout Hindu.
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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.
