Florence Scovel Shinn Quotes
Whatever man feels deeply or images clearly, is impressed upon the subconscious mind, and carried out in minutest detail.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.
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And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.
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If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
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They say TV has a tendency to diminish actors, and I think that's probably true in the long run - it wears on 'em like bad dental work - but Cheech doesn't show any of the signs of being damaged that way. And as a man, he's fantastic.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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As Americans after 9/11, we're much more united, together as a nation, and we got stronger, better, and more at peace. By peace, I mean the harmony you can feel in our united determination to fight these terrorists and killers.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.
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There are always going to be critics... and I have always had a rule: no matter how good the commentary is, or how bad the commentary is, it's more important that you do what you think is right.
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I love working with women.
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I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Many environmental battles are won by delaying a destructive project long enough to change the conversation - to allow new economic, political and social dynamics to emerge.
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These code authorities could regulate production, quantities, qualities, prices, distribution methods, etc., under the supervision of the NRA. This was fascism.
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Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
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In Bolivia, the middle class, intellectuals and the self-employed are proud of their Indian roots. Unfortunately, some oligarchic groups continue to treat us as being inferior.
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If a man cannot prove his religion in the valley, it is not worth anything.
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Whatever man feels deeply or images clearly, is impressed upon the subconscious mind, and carried out in minutest detail.
