George Shinn Quotes
Believe you can do it. Believing something can be done puts your mind to work for you and helps you find ways to do it.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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The textile industry became a huge deal in 19th century America, kind of like the tech industry is today. And that immigrant tradition continues, especially in tech, America's most dominant and dynamic industry today.
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Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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I think trust is the most important thing. If the actors and the director and the crew trust each other and you set up perimeters and boundaries, you give everyone space to do great work.
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You're a hundred percent correct about our show being tops in quality.
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The attitude of the business community towards investment in Austria and Germany has always been positive, as both the countries have earned their reputation as countries with a consistent economic environment.
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Right whales - so named because they were 'the right whale to kill' - grazed the waters off Nantucket as if they were seagoing cattle, straining the nutrient-rich surface of the ocean through the bushy plates of baleen in their perpetually grinning mouths.
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Whenever I've not known what to do, I've always gone back to the Carter Family because there was nothing like singing with my aunts and my mom to my grandma.
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Our Soviet writer must be guided in his world only by the need of the people, useful for the society.
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I agreed the situation was sticky. Indeed, offhand it was difficult to see how it could have been more glutinous.
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Epops: Come let me see, what shall the name be for our city? ... Euelpides: Hence, from the clouds, and these meteoric regions, some all-swelling name. Pisthetaerus: Would you 'Cloud-cuckoo-land?' (tr. Warter 1830, p. 215)
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He’s not really a religious man, but he knows which side his bread’s buttered on. The churches pay his salary, so he doesn’t want anyone rocking the boat with unorthodox rumours.
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When I'm not working, I don't do lots of glamorous things.
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I took boxing classes and karate when I was young.
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I'm a woman of faith. And I really believe that if I say, 'God, this is what I want,' He says, 'I'll give you your desires, as long as they line up with My will.'
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Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.
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Maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight you're on my mind, so you never know.
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I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure out what that means for me at this point in my life.
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The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
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I'm getting offered roles that aren't designed for aboriginal people; they're designed for anybody. It's pretty surreal and mind-blowing.
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The Iraq I returned from was, in my mind, a fairly simple place. By which I mean it had little relationship to reality. It's only with time and the help of smart, empathetic friends willing to pull through many serious conversations that I've been able to learn more about what I witnessed.
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My mind speaks English, my heart speaks Russian, and my ear prefers French.
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Believe you can do it. Believing something can be done puts your mind to work for you and helps you find ways to do it.
