Ben Shahn Quotes
When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.
Quotes to Explore
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov -
All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
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Life is such a tragicomedy.
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Musical theater is an American genre. It started really, in America, as a combination of jazz and operetta; most of the great musical theater writers in the golden era are American. I think that to do a musical is a very American thing to me.
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When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
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I went to a French immersion school, and French-Canadian improv is a big thing, and we had an improv team at school, and 12 of us would get up and make things up against other elementary schools. I'd always wanted to perform, and that was just another extension of it.
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I think most Americans don't really care about politicians bickering in Washington.
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All my friends, they're all gone. I've outlived them all.
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It doesn't matter who you sleep with, it's how you treat other people in this world.
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If someone's a flake, I help them dig their own hole. I let the audience be the judge. And believe me, they are.
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Sometimes we make films just for our people, and it doesn't reach to anyone.
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The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.
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The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.
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When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.
