Shonda Rhimes (Shonda Lynn Rhimes) Quotes

At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them

Shonda Rhimes

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• Boundaries
• Fence
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• I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Work
  • American

• Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Life
  • Real
  • Think

• Working with Tyler Perry has been a wonderful experience. Everything he touches turns to gold, it seems like.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Experience
  • Gold
  • Working

• I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Daughter
  • Editor

• 'Adbusters' is my favourite reading material, so as soon as you go there, the synapses start firing in a different way. You start taking on things that sometimes I feel are out of our control. That's what basically fuels my creative side.

  

  Raine Maida
  • Different
  • Control
  • Reading

• When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity - what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Life
  • Mind

• I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Live
  • Weird
  • Ranch

• I had a chance to play for the Cuban national team during the 2009 World Baseball Classic, but at the time I never thought about leaving Cuba.

  

  Yoenis Cespedes
  • Time
  • World
  • Team

• Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Morality
  • Stomach

• Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it's hardly tax-free. The property taxes are high for a Southern state. The sales taxes are high. One study found that the bottom 20 percent of the Texas population pays 12 percent of its income in state and local taxes.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Business
  • High
  • Free

• It is not industry, but idleness, that is degrading.

  

  Calvin Coolidge

• As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.

  

  James Gleick
  • Book
  • Perfect
  • Technology

• A big ethical question is what happens after people stop using the device. Does it degrade the environment? Could it have been designed so it would actually be good for the environment?

  

  Donald Norman
  • People
  • Good
  • Stop

• The times change, and if you don't change with them, you get left behind.

  

  Bradley Walsh

• You have a great result if the orchestra trusts the conductor, and the conductor trusts the orchestra.

  

  Andris Nelsons
  • Great

• I spent a lot of time in college studying theater of the absurd and Beckett and Genet, and then I spent a lot of time after that at 'Gossip Girl' auditions, thinking, 'Wow, I really wasted my money.'

  

  Betty Gilpin
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Money

• The equipment you've got really dictates what you're going to do. When I started touring, there were no monitors, so I had to take the sound from the hall, and of course it was on a delay, so I would sing, and then I would hear it back, but later. It was very weird.

  

  Marianne Faithfull
  • Weird

• I get excited about a crowd that likes our kind of music.

  

  Matthew Ramsey Old Dominion
  • Music

• Romantic comedies seem to take over where the fairytales of childhood left off, feeding our dreams of a soulmate; though, sadly, the Hollywood endings prove quite elusive in the real world.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • World
  • Real
  • Childhood

• Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Great
  • Lord
  • Forgive

• No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • World
  • Decision
  • Without

• Everything in my career is my decision - every picture, every outfit. You get one chance at this, and I never saw myself as being a puppet.

  

  Katherine Jenkins
  • Career
  • Decision
  • Picture

• When you're offered a job to serve your country, you step back and assess. And once I spoke with President Trump and told him what I thought I needed to be successful - which was to be a Cabinet member; to be on the National Security Council, where I could be a part of the policy decisions; and to be able to say what I wanted to say - how do you not do that job? He was incredibly supportive. He's continued to be. I love a good challenge, and this certainly has been that.

  

  Nikki Haley
  • Country
  • Decision
  • President

• At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them

  

  Shonda Rhimes
  • Decision
  • Boundaries
  • Fence