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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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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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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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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Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive factor; it is people, not things that are decisive. The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. People necessarily wield military and economic power.
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Are we meant to take more than we giveor are we meant to be kind?And if only fools are kind, Alfie,then I guess it's wise to be cruel.
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If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They'd be inexpensive, too.
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I've been blessed to spend time with young people and help encourage an environment where it's comfortable for them to be who they are. That's precious for children.
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There's somebody out there for everyone.
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I don't think that we need to raise tuition on our students. I don't think that our students should be made to pay for the mistakes of our past politicians and the promises they made.
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Taking offense has become America's national pastime; being theatrically offended supposedly signifies the exquisitely refined moral delicacy of people who feel entitled to pass through life without encountering ideas or practices that annoy them.
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Everybody deals with injuries. We've been there before. The next guy steps up. That's a tall order, but you can't approach the game any other way.
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Sometimes you do have people who are great at curating; sometimes you have people curating who don't know what they're do.
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I want to modernize the ancient. I prefer to work with materials formed naturally over thousands of years.
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Whatever I get involved in, I'm totally involved, you see.
