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've been really, really blessed. I got to perform on stage with Bob Dylan. I've gotten to sing with Mick Jagger.
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I travel to Jakarta, I see what an important country it is. I've been working with them for a year.
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We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.
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Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is.
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Our ministry is debt free and we have not had to beg or plead for finances.
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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.