George Shinn Quotes
Loving life is a two-way street... We don't receive care and compassion if we don't extend them to others.
Quotes to Explore
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.
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I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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In married life three is company and two none.
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I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.
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That point of life when I learned I could cook, that always made me understand what cooks felt like feeding other people. It's okay to receive, but it's really cool to give, so food is to me sexy because it's the fact that someone is giving it to someone else.
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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
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My life is not that glamorous. I actually live a pretty simple life, really. I just work. I don't have time to do all these glamorous things. I just do my thing, just work.
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It's hard separating work from personal life.
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Everybody always asks about Jimmy Fallon. I'm sorry to say that he's very nice and there's not much bad to say about him. I don't know if he sucks at videogames or not. I don't think he plays them, but he could have this whole secret life I don't know about.
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Art is my life and my life is art.
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Maybe in the workplace I have more courage than other areas in my life.
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Most people go to ashrams or retreats to destress and rejuvenate themselves. But I come back to my roots, the place where I spent half my life. And when I return, I spend time in the farms, eating a stalk of sugarcane, driving a tractor, and chilling with childhood friends.
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What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
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I don't care what other people are doing.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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I think I used to sort of segregate things. Work was this and life was this and exercise was this. And I feel as I get older, or I become more relaxed, I feel like wellness is my whole being.
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The great object of the institution of civil government is the improvement of those who are parties to the social compact.
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I also have a lot of preserved foods, things that will keep for a long time like dried fish, seaweed or lotus seed.
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I hate to admit it, because it makes me sound weird, but I'm Mr. Shoes. I own over 30 pairs.
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Loving life is a two-way street... We don't receive care and compassion if we don't extend them to others.
