Shonda Rhimes (Shonda Lynn Rhimes) Quotes
It can be scary to find out you've been wrong about something but we can't be afraid to change our minds, to accept that things are different, that they'll never be the same, for better or for worse. We have to be willing to give up what we used to believe. The more we're willing to accept what is and not what we thought, we'll find ourselves exactly where we belong.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.
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I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.
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It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.
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I haven't done much press for many reasons, but mostly because it's not an interesting dialogue about work that's been done. It's turned into something else. It's become this ridiculous other thing.
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A person's portrayal on TV isn't always how someone is.
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Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
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There is a latent anger in a lot of people that went to boarding school at an early age. I was eight. And I loved it over the five years, but I think the adjustments for eight-year-olds are a lot. And I think it informs who you are for a long, long time.
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I remember going to a monastery library when I was very young and being surrounded by ancient books. I fell in love.
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Our strongest gifts are usually those we are barely aware of possessing. They are a part of our God-given nature, with us from the moment we drew first breath, and we are no more conscious of having them than we are of breathing.
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Let us weep in our darkness, but weep not for him!Not for him who, departing, leaves millions in tears!Not for him who has died full of honor and years!Not for him who ascended Fame’s ladder so high:From the round at the top he has stepped to the sky.
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Grief never mended no broken bones, and as good people’s wery scarce, what I says is, make the most on ’em.
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The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
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I'm horrendous at capturing a decent selfie.
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Scripts and directors make great actors, not the other way around.
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I guess I like more of the skinny jeans. I'm not very fond of all the stretch, so I try to avoid too much stretch fabric.
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I like men with some belly who are a little over the hill.
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I'm currently working on a romantic comedy between me and Philip Seymour Hoffman. So my next step is to write something so mind-blowingly spectacular that he has no other choice but to agree to do it! Wish me luck.
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Every entrepreneur talks about the passion you have for your work, and I think that's what's missing with a lot of women in business.
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I wish we didn't have to tell this story.
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It can be scary to find out you've been wrong about something but we can't be afraid to change our minds, to accept that things are different, that they'll never be the same, for better or for worse. We have to be willing to give up what we used to believe. The more we're willing to accept what is and not what we thought, we'll find ourselves exactly where we belong.
