Shonda Rhimes (Shonda Lynn Rhimes) Quotes

I really don't think there's a world in which you can do anything with anybody. Because we're in the world of the White House, I think there are certain things you can do, and larger things that can happen, but I don't think you can do anything.

Shonda Rhimes

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• I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • World
  • Think

• There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Teach
  • Something
  • Excellent

• It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Thought

• World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.

  

  Lane Evans
  • Time
  • World
  • War

• When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Politics
  • Accountability

• It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.

  

  Edmond About
  • Men
  • Country
  • Question

• When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Laugh
  • Mickey Mouse

• Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Years
  • Order
  • Stock

• I get a lot of people telling me that I'd make a good 'wacky neighbor.' I wouldn't mind that, if it was a starting-off point.

  

  Harland Williams
  • People
  • Good
  • Mind

• You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Life
  • Work
  • Important

• During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Men
  • Community
  • Service

• I call it the 'House of Reprehensibles.' We don't have any real political resistance to this growth of the domestic state across the board. So I'm much more focused on that than on the Patriot Act, which is a real effort, however inept, to deal with a real problem.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Real
  • House
  • Political

• We're both very very lazy, and having someone else do half the work is very convenient.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • Work
  • Lazy
  • Someone

• My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Wish
  • Big
  • Heroes

• Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

  

  Ovid
  • Powerful
  • Habit
  • Nothing

• That's all you can do as an actor - take the best thing available.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • You
  • Best
  • Actor

• My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • World
  • Better
  • Commitment

• My theory about why Hemingway killed himself is that he heard his own voice; that he reached the point where he couldn't write without feeling he was repeating himself. That's the worst thing that can happen to a writer.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Why
  • Feeling
  • Voice

• If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.

  

  Martha Beck
  • Help

• The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you're high.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I was burned out, and my wife and I were having our first kid, so I wanted to take some time off. In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break weren't there when I came back.

  

  Chris O'Donnell
  • Time
  • Long
  • Business

• I don't exercise. I'm skinny fat. I worry about being too skinny. You should see my brother, he's, like, emaciated. We both just happen to be really skinny.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Worry
  • Brother
  • Exercise

• If...we do not think that a local church is worthy of joining, why should we be considered worthy of serving in it?

  

  Wayne Mack
  • Thinking
  • Should
  • Serving

• I really don't think there's a world in which you can do anything with anybody. Because we're in the world of the White House, I think there are certain things you can do, and larger things that can happen, but I don't think you can do anything.

  

  Shonda Rhimes
  • World
  • House
  • Certain