Shonda Rhimes (Shonda Lynn Rhimes) Quotes

Yes, it is hard out there. But hard is relative. I come from a middle-class family, my parents are academics. I was born after the Civil Rights movement, I was a toddler during the women's movement, I live in the United States of America, all of which means I am allowed to own my freedom, my rights, my voice and my uterus.

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• We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Relation
  • Arts
  • Sciences

• It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames of hatred against Israel.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Israel
  • Hatred
  • Decade

• I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • Way
  • Always
  • Camera

• I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Me
  • Things
  • Said

• It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Live
  • Soul
  • Sweet

• I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to 'ER' were maddening and there was this assumption that the two of us were looking at each other with rage and resentment, which was also not the case.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Think
  • Environment
  • Healthy

• I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.

  

  Tara Brach
  • True
  • Freedom
  • Fear

• You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Want
  • You
  • Treat

• I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• It's Teach For America's responsibility to ensure that all alumni know their voices are heard and valued, and to surface the range of opinion they represent.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • America
  • Responsibility
  • Opinion

• I believe I've accomplished my goals of trying to get better every year, and a little bit of that, a little bit of luck, a little bit of everything just falls in place, and you end up on top.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Trying

• Wild flowers grow where they will.

  

  Rachel Lambert Mellon
  • Grow
  • Flowers
  • WIld

• A poet's work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Work
  • Stop

• Every time you choose a perfume, you are voting. And, of course, I hope you vote for me. Not only for my ego, but for my pocketbook. The more you buy, the more money I make.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Time
  • Money
  • Hope

• Writing is the beast unto itself.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Writing
  • Beast
  • Unto

• In economics, one of the most important concepts is 'opportunity cost' - the idea that once you spend your money on something, you can't spend it again on something else.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Important
  • Money
  • Opportunity

• I longed from a tiny child to get away on my own. When I was five, I walked out along the sands from Redcar, nearly all the way to Hartlepool.

  

  Jane Gardam

• I was never bored because I always had a book. So I had a doorway into another world or another universe. It was great.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • World
  • Great
  • Book

• Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Death
  • Victim
  • Punish

• Once a decision is reached, stop worrying and start working.

  

  William James
  • Decision
  • Worry

• And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.

  

  Thomas More
  • Disease
  • Produce
  • Provoking

• Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Relative
  • God's Attribute

• Yes, it is hard out there. But hard is relative. I come from a middle-class family, my parents are academics. I was born after the Civil Rights movement, I was a toddler during the women's movement, I live in the United States of America, all of which means I am allowed to own my freedom, my rights, my voice and my uterus.

  

  Shonda Rhimes
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