Nina Shaw Quotes

So many people don't have control over their destiny in a way that I do, don't own their own businesses, don't have their own clients. I owe it to them to speak freely.

Nina Shaw

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• One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Black
  • Community

• Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Food
  • Practice
  • Clear

• I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.

  

  Banksy
  • Money
  • Art
  • Guy

• Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Up
  • Why
  • Death

• It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Pretty
  • Like
  • Seem

• The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Cat
  • Down
  • Clever

• There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Singing
  • Doing
  • Boring

• If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Me
  • Football
  • Laugh

• To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Home
  • Business
  • American

• I moved out at 18. I always studied classes and trained a lot, you know. I think nowadays is such a different time because there's so many channels promoting the celebrity aspect of things.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Time
  • Different
  • Think

• I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Interesting
  • Human
  • Living

• My life is so full of sacrifices.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Full

• I don't want to play games with anybody, to our fans, to Pierre Lacroix, or any other NHL team that might have interest in me.

  

  Patrick Roy
  • Want
  • Team
  • Interest

• Whether it's mending a failing company, fighting corruption, tackling disease, or rebuilding a marriage, the hardest problems defy just-add-water remedies. Indeed, slapping on a Band-Aid when surgery is needed usually just makes things worse.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Water
  • Band
  • Fighting

• I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.

  

  Gary Lucas
  • Ignorance
  • New
  • Jazz

• Education is gathering information and reading... No human being can thrive without some form of education. How you get it is up to you - the important thing is that you get it.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Up
  • Important
  • Education

• I remember rap music. We used to party and dance off of it. Today it's all about a whole different angle... Rappers are going against each other, and it's more of a bragging, boasting thing.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Music
  • Different
  • Remember

• There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Something
  • Irish
  • Remarkable

• I treasure my mornings. I get up early and ignore everything work-related for the first few hours. It's just me and my coffee addiction.

  

  Rachael Yamagata
  • Up
  • Work
  • Morning

• THINK before you speak. Is it True, Helpful, Inspiring, Necessary, Kind?

  

  Alan Redpath
  • Think
  • Speak
  • Helpful

• Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Soldier

• Make your kids go out and play. Kids ought to grow up the way you and I grew up and we grew up fifty years apart or maybe more. But we did the same things. Now who's out playing in the afternoon? Nobody.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Nature

• Well, the nice thing about animation, you don't even really have to account for yourself. All of the physical stuff that you work on as an actor, you just throw away.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Nice
  • Actors
  • Accounts

• So many people don't have control over their destiny in a way that I do, don't own their own businesses, don't have their own clients. I owe it to them to speak freely.

  

  Nina Shaw
  • Control
  • Speak
  • Freely