Ben Shahn Quotes

I've been asked a great deal about the influence I've had with my work and it's impossible to say, you know.

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• Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.

  

  Haniel Long
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Friends

• I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Trying
  • Together
  • Player

• My baby is amazing; even his head smells amazing. His breath, the whole thing, you could eat him! He's a big, beautiful boy. He's great.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Amazing

• I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Love
  • Science
  • Reading

• A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Life
  • Important
  • May

• I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.

  

  Larry Brown
  • People
  • Up
  • Think

• The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.

  

  Walter Gropius
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  • Great
  • She

• I like excess. And giant M&M's.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Like
  • Excess
  • Giant

• By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Excellence
  • Contemplation

• That's a rule in the business. No tongue. You can't really get into it, otherwise, it's weird. I think that particular scene made his (Adam Brody) girlfriend jealous. There were issues.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Business
  • Think
  • Weird

• I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so much that other people don't get to learn until later on. My father being a director, I learnt a real work ethic.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Life
  • True
  • Nature

• Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.

  

  Carl Orff
  • Time
  • Children
  • Heart

• I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Life
  • Love
  • Parents

• I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Up
  • Women
  • Mother

• The Zach Johnson Foundation, for my wife and I, is very much a part of what we do and why we do what we do. It's a great platform for us to give back to the community that started me in the game and other communities.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Great
  • Why
  • Game

• It's good to get out there and kind of move the body around a little bit, play some hockey, enjoy Nashville as a city and spend some time with family and friends.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Time
  • Good
  • Family

• I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what's the fun in that?

  

  Peter Dinklage
  • Fun

• If I'm not working and getting my makeup done, that's my chance to do a hair mask and a face mask and my plucking and waxing and all of that.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Done
  • Hair
  • Makeup

• I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet.

  

  America Ferrera
  • Up
  • Hate
  • Red

• I've played a lot of very posh, sort of noble or aristocratic English people, which is nothing like what I am, so I feel that there is quite a lot distance there and have played a little bit far away from myself.

  

  James McAvoy
  • People
  • English
  • Distance

• Opinions, yes; convictions, no. That is the point of departure for an intellectual pride.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Pride

• I've been asked a great deal about the influence I've had with my work and it's impossible to say, you know.

  

  Ben Shahn
  • Work
  • Great