George Shinn Quotes
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In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.
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Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.
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Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.
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As chief elections officer, it's my job to protect the integrity of the ballot.
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But doing what I do, you will never get unanimity of people.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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I'm terrified about psychic people who have their little shops. I always walk across the street and go somewhere else. Imagine if one of them came out with their face all pale and said, 'Hurry up and enjoy yourself.' No one wants to know that.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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Do not give up your dream because it is apparently not being realized, because you cannot see it coming true. Cling to your vision with all the tenacity you can muster. Keep it bright; do not let the bread-and-butter side of life cloud your ideal or dim it.
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If, in the schools, the classical language would no longer be taught, whom could we entrust with the writing of memorials, documents, letters and notes in the public service? How could we possibly assign important offices and heavy responsibilities to someone who cannot even write fluently?
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Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.
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When we were filming 'Twilight,' we didn't expect anything. We were just filming a movie that we wanted the fans to enjoy. And then it kinda just blew into this whole other world.
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In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country.
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If I could choose something besides fashion, I would love to be a ballerina.
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I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
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These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.
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The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in.
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One felt as if there was an enormous well behind them. Filled up with ages of memory and long, slow, steady thinking; but their surface was sparkling with the present : like sun shimmering on the outer leaves of a vast tree, or on the ripples of a very deep lake. I don’t know, but I t felt as if something that grew in the ground—asleep, you might say, or just feeling itself as something between roof-tip and leaf-tip, between deep earth and sky had suddenly waked up, and was considering you with the same slow care that it had given to its own inside affairs for endless years.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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Many say that no real avant-garde - which I'll define as a combative group of free-thinking artists - can exist anymore. The media's reach is too vast. New artists and movements get snatched up too quickly.
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Don't let failure get you down. Babe Ruth struck out over 1,300 times.
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In 'A Room of One's Own', Virginia Woolf satirically describes her perplexity at the bulging card catalog of the British Museum: why, she asks, are there so many books written by men about women but none by women about men? The answer to her question is that from the beginning of time men have been struggling with the threat of woman's dominance.
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That's my intent. It has been from the beginning and it still is.
