Ben Shahn Quotes
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.
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I hope our people hold tight to the notion that we do not have to be a fear-ridden country focused on restrictions, but rather that we remain the land of the free and home of the brave.
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If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.
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Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions.
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Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.
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Just because someone looks old doesn't mean he or she is. The skin of some people who spend a lot of time outdoors seems to age very rapidly. Someone can look 80 or 90 and only be 40 to 50.
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I've always listened to and loved country music ever since I was a kid.
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I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.
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I have to look at my career as 'it was what it was,' but I do wish there was more of it.
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To be a veiled Muslim woman on screen is a very scary minefield for me.
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My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.
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Language is the dress of thought.
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I try to get that across in the work, to try to, if I'm lucky, to make this world a little bit better for all of us before I check out. And that's if I'm lucky, I don't always get to have that privilege but I try always.
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I was always too afraid to slow dance. But I do remember watching people slow dance. I was the guy on the sidelines. At the school dance, I was usually in the band, playing.
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We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system.
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I definitely wanted this win today and I don't want anybody to talk about my nerves anymore.
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The insurance industry communicates through codes and check-off boxes. If there's no check-off box for you, you don't exist.
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Chronic means long term. Traumatic means associated with trauma. Encephalopathy means a bad brain.
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I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.
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Whatever I get involved in, I'm totally involved, you see.
