Florence Scovel Shinn Quotes
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	Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.   
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	I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit.   
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	My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.   
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	I have changed so much as an actor over the years.   
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	My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.   
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	Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.   
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	Cornwall bears a certain resemblance to Italy: each is like a leg or boot, but Italy stands a-tiptoe to the south, whereas Cornwall is thrust out to the west. But, whereas Italy is kicking Sicily as a football, Cornwall has but the shattered group of the Scilly Isles at its toe.   
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	No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.   
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	Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.   
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	Parents are telling other parents that you can save a lot of money renting. Forever they've been looking for a solution to higher textbook prices.   
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	A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.   
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	The first bike that I bought was a Triumph 650. I really like the Triumph 650. I mean, of course, I've driven Harleys, and I think in 'Savage Seven' I drove an Indian, but - I really love Triumph.   
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	We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.   
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	In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.   
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	Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.   
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	Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.   
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	I love the Coen brothers. They're so brilliant, and they always surprise you in one way or another. 'A Serious Man' was awesome. I like stuff like that, that kind of throws you for a loop. It takes you on a journey that is unexpected.   
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	When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.   
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	The effect of depleted uranium, used by America in the Gulf War, is never referred to.   
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	The attempt to live that way, the attempt to treat everybody - it fails all the time - but the attempt to treat people as equals is a good attempt. It's a very good attempt. And there have been very few governments that have come anywhere near it in the past. The Greeks began to, the Romans began to - they both failed.   
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	My fans are activists they will fight with you to defend me.   
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	Ye have no need to fight, stand ye still and see the salvation of the Lord.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					