Florence Scovel Shinn Quotes
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My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time.
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In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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I think, especially living in L.A., it's very easy to get wrapped up in weekend announcements and the trades and the whole social life of the city, and to get divorced from what actually matters.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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I was made fun of a lot in middle school. When I was in seventh grade, the popular kids paid the most popular guy to ask me out.
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I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Afghanistan is a land-locked country.
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.
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Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films and they've suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me.
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Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization.
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She only knew that it felt right, the two of them together again, like two brass gears that had been machined for each other, turning in perfect harmony.
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There is no truly global justice.
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Many people use the words 'death defying' or 'death wishing' when they talk about wire-walking. Many people have asked me: 'So do you have a death wish?' After doing a beautiful walk, I feel like punching them in the nose. It's indecent. I have a life wish.
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Being a poet in the States is quite different from being one in China, because in the States poetry depends on the universities for its support. They finance the poets and help them get published. That isn't so in China. But overall it is the same. You can't change society with poetry.
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Man can change his conditions by changing his words.
