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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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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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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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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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 read 'Song of Solomon' by Toni Morrison in college, and it just blew my mind.
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The Stockholm street style is distinctive, with ensembles that exemplify the city's understated elegance.
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I feel empowered the fact that I can look the way that I do on stage and in photos - I can look that way any time I want. And I feel like it's important message to other women that they can do it, too.
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Someone once said that life is what happens while we are making other plans. I now know what that means.
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If you are really interested in making government work, you should have the experience of working in government.
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As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I'll confess that a frustration of mine has always been that so much investigative journalism involves a dissection of events in the past.
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The reason they keep it so tight is that no one liked them, so that without each other, actually, they couldn't exist. They support each other. They support their flaws and everything else.
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I'd love to do something on 'Mad Men' and 'Boardwalk Empire.' I really like period stuff.
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Of course I consider myself a Jewish writer - I am one! All of the protagonists in my five books have been Jewish, and I wouldn't be surprised if all my future main characters were as well.
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No woman who is a woman says of a human body, 'it is nothing' ... On this one point, and on this point alone, the knowledge of woman, simply as woman, is superior to that of man; she knows the history of human flesh; she knows its cost; he does not.
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There was a time when my whole life was in chaos, really, and I didn't help myself sort it out. But one day I came to my senses, and I think I was lucky because a lot of people don't.
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I hope you hair curls naturally, does it? Yes, darling, with a little help from others.
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If we assume that the purpose of the economy is to serve and improve the welfare of the entire body of citizens, the U.S. model has clearly been a major failure. It has served a minority, and the majority have not only failed to share in the income gains yielded by the model, they have suffered from reduced benefits, greater job instability and stress, and a diminution of expectations and sense of hope for the future.
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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.
