Florence Scovel Shinn Quotes
It would not be necessary to make an affirmation more than once if one had perfect faith.
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We have lost the idea that something can be secret because it is valuable, not because it's shameful. If you share everything with everybody, what have you got for yourself? I tweet and I blog, but I save a lot for myself. Not because I am ashamed.
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Everyone has a crazy old lady in their family like 'Mama.' No one ever comes up to me and says 'Mama' is just like them, so no one is ever offended by her. Even young people like to laugh at her. I think she helps kids appreciate their own grandmothers more.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.
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I have so many pairs of oxfords; it's ridiculous. It started because at my school you have to wear oxfords for our uniform, but after I got my first pair, I realized they were really comfortable, so they became my regular walking shoes, too.
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I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
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Researchers have been looking for biomarkers of age for a long time and have failed. People sell tests out there to measure your biological age, and none of them work. There's no evidence that you can measure biological age with any reliability.
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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
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The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.
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The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.
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With the right kind of financing, I think we can grow by 100 percent per year.
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The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
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Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.
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But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches.
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People have crossed the Himalayas in flip-flops seeking a blessing from the Dalai Lama.
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That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.
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We never had a huge squad and we never had a great deal of choice. But in many ways that helps because you've got to make do with what you've got. You don't have too many problems about picking the team you just hope that everyone turns up on the day.
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People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.
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You're now getting a new breed of people like Il Divo and Andrea Bocelli and I think that's why people feel less intimidated by classical music than they once did.
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The problem with all these tired excuses for inaction is that it suggests a fundamental lack of faith in American business and American ingenuity.
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Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary.
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I have long been impressed with the focus on politics and that focus being... from young people.
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It would not be necessary to make an affirmation more than once if one had perfect faith.
