Sxip Shirey (Gene "Sxip" Shirey) Quotes
Art is borne out of necessity. Music is a tool and men are doers. When a relationship is working, you don't need to write a song-you need to get toilet paper.
Quotes to Explore
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Everybody's had their differences with President Trump. He's a polarizing president, but I think a majority of the people like what he's doing.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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Although I come from a family who are Muslim - my mother is Egyptian, my father is Palestinian - my mother only puts a veil on her head when she has a bad hair day.
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I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.
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I don't mean to be funny.
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The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.
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You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks right or getting out of a car so it doesn't take a million years of screen time.
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I'm not a depressive, but I certainly have mood swings. It's an occupational hazard, I would say, and I'm glad I'm in the occupation I'm in.
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I feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently.
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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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There is no such thing as a lazy person; he is either sick or uninspired.
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The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience. There's lots of good fish in the sea ... maybe ... but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.
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The first instinctive response to any criticism is a defensive response. (The quicker the response, the more defensive.)
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All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.
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I like the old-school muscle cars.
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The script that I fell in love with and adored was 'Jane the Virgin'... but every line in the pilot was essentially, 'Why did you keep my daughter a secret all of these years?' I didn't know any direction my character was going - was it going to be a dramatic character, a comedic character? - I didn't know.
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I'm really confident. I had a perfect childhood. I had perfect parents and grandparents. They just love me, simply. So I have no fears.
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It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.
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Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for their country's cause.
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I care about Roger Sterling, one of the most subtle and amazing characters in dramatic history ["Mad Men"]. This guys who knows precisely who he is, yet leaves us time after time hoping desperately for him to finally grab control of his life and some responsibility for those around him.
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Art is borne out of necessity. Music is a tool and men are doers. When a relationship is working, you don't need to write a song-you need to get toilet paper.
