George Shinn Quotes
There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.
Quotes to Explore
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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You've got to try to guard, make an effort to defend to the best of your ability. You have to rebound the ball, which was an area that was so critical. And they wanted you to play smart and have fun. I've kind of tried to let our people understand those are the most important things that I could possibly tell them.
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Remember this: classics never make a comeback. They wait for that perfect moment to take the spotlight from overdone, tired trends.
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My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice.
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I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to have something to fail at.
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There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
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Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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I've always wanted to be a singer.
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I loved 'Pan's Labyrinth.' It transported me into another world. I like fantasy worlds; I love 'Lord of the Rings' as well, for that reason, because you really get to get out of reality and go somewhere else.
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The worst thing a man can ever do is kiss me on the first date.
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Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.
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I'm proud to be part of the fabric that inspires the next generations to remain curious and remember that 'smart is cool.'
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People often ask us if we had direct influences. Honestly, just a lot of different music - not necessarily individual people. We listen to anything from Bob Dylan to Massive Attack to Aerosmith to En Vogue. We very much enjoy all that music.
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I read 'Song of Solomon' by Toni Morrison in college, and it just blew my mind.
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It was pretty clear that I was a funny guy, just as a guy.
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To be honest, what I struggled with in my degree is what's so helpful when it comes to social media in that I lack focus. I'll start reading about evolutionary biology and end up on quantum physics. While that makes writing your dissertation very difficult, for a page like IFLS, that's amazing because I get a wide range of everything.
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I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels.
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I wouldn't call myself a feminist, because I think there are differences between men and women.
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There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.
