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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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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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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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I think that one of the things that Democrats, in particular, need to recognize is that the way we have sometimes thought about issues as just affecting a particular group of people is not necessarily right.
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Investigating rare diseases gives researchers more clues about how the healthy immune system functions.
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We must continue to fight for funding for health technologies so that they can continue to do what they do best - save lives - but also because they confer a real benefit to America's economy.
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My mum is really fair and has blonde hair, and my dad is not dark, either.
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We will be thankful and grateful. Not even the last thing that is done for us shall be forgotten.
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It became the joke of the neighbourhood. If the umpire ruled me out on a bad call, I'd take the fake eye out and hand it to him.
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When Congress legislates in haste, it often causes more problems than it solves. But Congress rarely reconsiders its mistakes.
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The devotion that young Chinese feel to the Internet is driven by deep factors ranging from youth unemployment and income inequality to political repression and the demographic imbalance between men and women.
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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.
