Ben Shahn Quotes
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An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.
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I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.
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What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.
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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.
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My size is a huge part of me. You just have to appreciate those kinds of things. So I wasn't born with long legs - who cares. You just have to embrace it. Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness.
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Usually, in musical theater, if you sing operatically or if you sing in a legit style, you're the heart of the show. You maybe get to be moving and do dramatic stuff, but it's very rare to be that funny.
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And it's a lot harder to hide with four musicians than it is with eight.
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My parents opened a bank account for me when I was really little, and I think I paid for some of my university education with my savings. I've always been a bit of a saver.
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I don't think there is anything magical about the language of flowers in real life or in my book.
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Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.
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We live in America. We live in a free society where we are able to make choices. It's about giving individuals freedoms and holding them accountable.
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I have a new show now called 'The Bridge,' where I play a guy who's a real-life guy. My character's based on the life of a guy named Craig Bromell who was a cop for 12 years and then became head of the police association, so basically the president of the union for 85,000 cops.
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I'm going to fire everybody - that’s how. You're either going to stop leaking, or you're going to get fired. If I've got to get the thing down to me and Sarah Huckabee, then the leaking will stop.
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If there is one who’s not free, then I am not free. If there is one who suffers, then I suffer.
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Being polite and grateful will make people more inclined to help you. And if people are willing to help you, you may accidentally get something you want.
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I don't want to lead an organization where I have no sense of what the members think of me - and by arrangement. I would never do that.
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Kids are more drawn to animal characters than human.
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When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.
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That is the situation in the factory where I work. The union has never gone in and the workers are nothing but poor victims of blackmail, dependent on the law of the owner, that is: I pay you and so I possess you and I possess your life, your family, and everything that surrounds you, and if you don’t do as I say I’ll ruin you.
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When I first moved from photography to filmmaking, I was worried about how big I had to become. I was one person, or maybe me and an assistant, and I had these small cameras, and maybe a flash.
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Friendship, if somebody holds out his hand toward you, you've got to reach and take it... There are too many people alone, and if you're lucky enough for somebody to want you as a friend, it's an obligation.
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Two of the chief defenders of the faith in the Old Testament and in the New - Moses and Paul - were both well-versed in the language, the thinking, and the philosophy of their cultures.
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I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate.
