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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'Twilight' fans are different. They're very civil with one another. It's a respect because they're all in this together and they all appreciate the same things.
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I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.
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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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We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons. When we put an end to nuclear tests, we get closer to eliminating all nuclear weapons. A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.
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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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When it comes to female fan attention, I'm married, so obviously I avoid the places where you might get unwanted female attention - clubs and social environments, bars and public spaces.
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I don't think we should focus on what church that person walks into .. I think we need to focus on what they do when they walk out of church.
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Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
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I really don't worry about what people say or what they have to say or what they think - it just doesn't matter.
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Whatever I get involved in, I'm totally involved, you see.
