Florence Scovel Shinn Quotes
We must stop planning, plotting and scheming, and let Infinite Intelligence solve the problem in its own way.

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I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen.
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I usually decide what to wear in the morning, but sometimes, I'll have a favorite coat or sweater or shoes, and I'll wear them everyday for a week!
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
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I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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I remember the great atmosphere and the great stadium.
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My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.
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You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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Too many people hold a very narrow view of what motivates us. They believe that the only way to get us moving is with the jab of a stick or the promise of a carrot. But if you look at over 50 years of research on motivation, or simply scrutinize your own behavior, it's pretty clear human beings are more complicated than that.
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A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'
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Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.
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I believe in the American Dream because I have lived the American Dream.
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I had a terrible bout of acne after I turned 30.
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It seems that, culturally, young people function more in groups. They know each other through digital media. All the young comedy people who work in TV are really used to working at the table with lots of writers around. They're comfortable in the group; they don't assert their own egos over everyone else.
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As you get older, you think about things differently from when you do in your twenties, when you think you'll live forever.
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I began after college, about 1972. I began to teach myself photography. I went to work for a local newspaper for four years as a kind of basic training.
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We found that Central Americans and Hispanics are somewhat reluctant to send their children off to school as early as Anglo-Americans born in this country. There are some cultural differences.
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.
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Repentance is something that is brought about in the human heart by the work of God the Holy Spirit.
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We must stop planning, plotting and scheming, and let Infinite Intelligence solve the problem in its own way.