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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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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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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Perhaps our imagination needs crime stories to fulfill some craving we have, as a way to assuage a darkness in ourselves.
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Everyone dies, and before that, most people eventually lose some of their faculties. So some people worry that as marketers get better at targeting the elderly, the line between advertising and unscrupulous manipulation will be harder to discern.
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It is my philosophy that one should not excel in only one thing but try to strike a balance between different things.
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I don't believe love is real love if it remains cloistered within the confines of an intimate relationship; it should transcend the private sphere. As an artist that means training an eye on the suffering in the world, then acting on behalf of others.
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I really wanted to be on Six Feet Under as a corpse. That would be hysterical.
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Video games are engineered now, but the step I am trying to take, no one can engineer.
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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.
