Shonda Rhimes (Shonda Lynn Rhimes) Quotes
I happen to like debating, and I like to debate like a lawyer, and I can argue any points to death, and I will.
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For the last seven years, I have been racing the best in the world and making my way through the ranks. I am in that spot where I have got a real opportunity to produce something. I am not going to take it for granted because I know those guys will step it up.
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I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.
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I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.
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The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from, and I've often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness.
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I would not give my first 15 years to my worst enemy.
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The fact is, I diet every day of my life. I have to work at it. But I diet so I can pig out.
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When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.
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I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.
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Midori has been a steadfast supporter of the United Nations, as a Messenger of Peace and more recently by encouraging our efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
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My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know.
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Female friendships have sustained me from my earliest days as a child.
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Historically, hip-hop is about a generation of artists rapping about the realities they see in their neighborhoods or the 'truths' they hear growing up in their homes.
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The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel.
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I wanted to be the most famous. And it wasn't until I hung out with Justin Bieber that the whole thing got demystified. The mystique of it was gone.
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You are only as great as the opportunities that are given to you.
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Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.
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My solo series, in some ways, have been rarely truly solo.
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For some Republicans, 2016 is 1992: Hating Hillary Clinton is chic again. Only more so, since the former secretary of state is also the partner of and potential successor to the last two Democratic presidents - Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
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I think it's important to remember that civil rights and economic rights are mutually dependent.
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I consider myself a religious person, but when it comes to God and faith, I don't know. I guess that means I'm agnostic.
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Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate.
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I hope that on my tombstone it says 'Born 1933, died 2043.' I hope that's my legacy.
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Evil-doers who denounce the wise resemble a person who spits against the sky; the spittle will never reach the sky, but comes down on himself. Evil-doers again resemble a man who stirs the dust against the wind; the dust is never raised without doing him injury. Thus, the wise will never be hurt, but the curse is sure to destroy the evil-doers themselves.
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I happen to like debating, and I like to debate like a lawyer, and I can argue any points to death, and I will.
