George Shinn Quotes
I feel like the guy that's got two women that's fighting over him. It would be nice if it was two women instead of two states.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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I was actually already doing my Ph.D. in neuroscience when September 11 happened. 'The End Of Faith' is essentially what September 11 did to my intellectual career at that moment.
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I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
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An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
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I found the brick-making process fascinating - how, after being burnt, the brick would come out strong. I liked to sit on the stack of bricks and look as far as I could. I'd do the same at a hillock near my school - just sit on top at leisure and enjoy the feeling of being on top of the world.
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GIS is waking up the world to the power of geography, this science of integration, and has the framework for creating a better future.
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I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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Every year, like a good Catholic, I wait for Christmas. Putting up the lights, decorating the tree, making sweets and then unwrapping gifts on Christmas morning... it's a tradition my family has followed since I was very little.
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Hairdressers call me dark blonde, but I think they're wrong. I feel far more naturally confident blonde. My mum's blonde, my sister's platinum blonde. I thought, 'When I grow up, that's what I'm going to look like.'
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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I started reading G. K. Chesterton's 'The Man Who Was Thursday' on a subway ride, almost missed my stop, and walked home thumbing pages.
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I've been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog.
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I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president.
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The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over a sequence of dramatic moments, so you empathize with the characters without really thinking about it too much. It is a really powerful tool for imagining yourself in other people's situations.
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They're trying to destroy my family, so I take great umbrage with that. And defeat is not an option. They picked a fight with a warlock.
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I think that it's fear. The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so they're afraid to lose those positions. If you're 22 years old and you can't believe you're even in the position to have a career making music, the first thing you're going to think is: Maintain. Don't lose it. And that's precisely what causes you to lose everything.
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People assume that happiness stems from collecting things outside of yourself, whereas true happiness stems from removing things from inside of yourself
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Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.
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Black people have been fighting for basic citizenship rights since the inception of the country.
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I hurt myself doing a fight scene with some dwarves.
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I feel like the guy that's got two women that's fighting over him. It would be nice if it was two women instead of two states.
