Shonda Rhimes (Shonda Lynn Rhimes) Quotes

Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means I am failing in another area of my life.

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• I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Where
  • Still
  • Charge

• We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • People
  • Good
  • God

• Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.

  

  Iris Chang
  • See
  • Media
  • Economic

• I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Father
  • Dad
  • Period

• When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Judge

• As an artist or musician, you want to be remembered for the music you make.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Want
  • Artist

• But the trouble is that when you drink it, you invariably meet other people drinking it.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • People
  • Trouble
  • Drinking

• Lo que me digo, ¿quién lo dice?

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Significant changes in both the level of the overall spending and in the structure of its financing will be necessary, compared with what was on the table in June, if there is to be a deal in December.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Changes
  • Deal
  • December

• Some quirk in human nature allows even the most unspeakable acts of evil to become banal within minutes, provided that they occur far enough away to pose no personal threat.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Nature
  • Evil
  • Human

• I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Thinking
  • Dream
  • Free

• Religion is not something separate and apart from ordinary life. It is life - life of every kind viewed from the standpoint of meaning and purpose: life lived in the fuller awareness of its human quality and spiritual significance.

  

  Arthur Powell Davies
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Quality

• I always play women I would date.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Women
  • Play
  • Dating

• We're all going to change. Otherwise, it's boring. Who wants to stay the damn same all their life?

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Life
  • Change
  • Boring

• I have always regarded manual labour as creative and looked with respect-and, yes, wonder-at people who work with their hands. It seems to me that their creativity is no less than that of a violinist or painter.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • People
  • Work
  • Respect

• You are falling into your old error, Jeeves, of thinking that Gussie is a parrot. Fight against this. I shall add the oz.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Thinking

• People assume that because I'm a celebrity and have this platform that I always know what I'm talking about. I guess I don't always know what I'm talking about because I'm a kid who's trying to figure it out amid all the chaos of the world at large, and also the chaos of having this voice and responsibility. At the same time, this voice and responsibility has been the biggest blessing because I'm able to create change just by posting something on Instagram. That's really amazing. I can't believe that I get to have that megaphone and I get to decide how to use it.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated' nearly everyday - a high compliment for any book.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Book
  • High
  • Everyday

• And that's where the whole trouble is. We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand our own selves.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Trouble
  • Self
  • Whole

• The Internet makes the writer work harder - I have to say things here I've never said before, or else be caught out in repeating myself.

  

  Joshua Cohen
  • Internet
  • Work Hard
  • Repeating

• Already known as one of America’s best and wittiest poets, William Trowbridge has, in Ship of Fool, found the perfect vessel to convey his vision: comic, tender, wry, compassionate, full of insight and rueful understanding of what it means to carry on, cream pies in the face, pants falling down as the Green Weenie rampages through our foolish, beautiful lives.

  

  Charles Harper Webb
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Perfect

• I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • World
  • Artist
  • Ability

• You never say never. That's one of the lessons I've learned.

  

  Kamaru Usman
  • Never
  • Learned
  • Lesson

• Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means I am failing in another area of my life.

  

  Shonda Rhimes
  • Mean
  • Succeed
  • Failing