Florence Scovel Shinn Quotes
I have a wonderful joy in a wonderful way and my wonderful joy has come to stay.
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More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that's more like a spice.
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
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When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
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I'm on a search for the truth.
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I've been through a lot of moments when other people thought Bitcoin was going to implode, and in those instances, I generally have seen through inaccurate coverage of it.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.
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The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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We're one of the largest employers in Canada for animation executives, and there is - I think something on the magnitude of $140 million a year be important to the Canadian economy producing animation for Netflix.
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Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
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I knew I was Chinese, but growing up, it never occurred to me that that had any particular implication or that it should differentiate me in any way. I thought it was a minor detail, like having red hair.
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The concept of minimalism is to relax. Like a Zen monk in training, it is something that brings equilibrium to the heart. I don't necessarily think it has any problems, but if I were to force myself to name one, I would say that since the minimalist feeling already includes its own universe, I think it might kill the drive that we would otherwise have to commit the physically impossible and attempt to travel into outer space.
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I desperately want to see the day today and do the best I can not miss a shred of sunlight. It'll be over before I know it.
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I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them.
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I have a wonderful joy in a wonderful way and my wonderful joy has come to stay.
