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
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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.
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Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.
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Working with Tyler Perry has been a wonderful experience. Everything he touches turns to gold, it seems like.
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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.
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'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.
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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.
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I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.
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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.
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Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
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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.
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It is not industry, but idleness, that is degrading.
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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.
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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?
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I guess John Lennon had it right: give peace a chance.
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The times change, and if you don't change with them, you get left behind.
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I'm just trying to be the next Trisha Yearwood.
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You have a great result if the orchestra trusts the conductor, and the conductor trusts the orchestra.
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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.'
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To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.
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It seems like a lot of what was going on when I quit is still going on.
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He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Being in space, I'm really looking forward to working with this team of folks that I'm with.
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I think every band I'm a part of fulfills something the others don't, so I'm pretty convinced I need all of them.
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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
