Ben Shahn Quotes

I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Special Skills. I was to do posters, pamphlets, murals, propaganda in general, you know.

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• To me, 'Underground Luxury' is kinda like a contrasting title, and the reason for that is because on this album I plan on introducing to people and reintroducing to people the side of me that they didn't see on the first album.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • People
  • Me
  • Reason

• Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Friends
  • Friendship
  • Destroy

• I can't keep secrets about myself. I can keep secrets about other people, but if it's about myself, I'm like, 'blah blah blah blah.'

  

  Olivia Cooke
  • People
  • Myself
  • Secrets

• I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Work
  • Home
  • View

• I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Taken
  • Make
  • Sure

• When a song wants to be written, it will be written.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Song
  • Will
  • Wants

• There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Great
  • Business
  • Politics

• Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.

  

  B. B. King
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Family

• I don't think there's an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don't.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Love
  • Me
  • Fall

• I love basketball, but I miss football every time I watch it.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Time
  • Love
  • Football

• The thing that's worked for me is having as much of a connection to the material as possible. And sometimes the material requires a more straightforward approach, and sometimes it requires a little more silliness, you know?

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Know
  • Connection
  • Material

• Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.

  

  Eddie Bracken
  • Life
  • Survivor
  • Surviving

• Death is final. No it is not just final, it's worse than that, it's diminishing: the dead continue to decrease, to occupy less space.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Death
  • Space
  • Dead

• And so the administration, I think, has said to the American people that it is a generational commitment to Iraq.

  

  Condoleezza Rice
  • People
  • American
  • Commitment

• I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.

  

  Arthur Miller

• Personal style says so much about who you are. What you wear can entice different things from within you.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • Different
  • Style

• It's pretty hard to stand in the queue auditioning to play a gynaecologist on 'Holby City' when you've just played Mandela. You think, 'Actually, I want to challenge myself.'

  

  David Harewood
  • Pretty
  • City
  • Challenge

• I was a big, big fan of Jimmy Burton. Anything with him on, I used to perk up and listen to it over and over and over again.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • Up

• I've always thought of Las Vegas as Los Angeles on its day off. There's not any hierarchy of taste, and that's what L.A. always was to me: It's not really a town of culture - it's a town of entertainment.

  

  James Turrell
  • Culture
  • Vegas

• I might not be Shaq, but I can be Kobe, you know?

  

  Jerry Only

• I'm kind of a creature of the alt-weekly universe - my real education into higher culture was acquired in coffee shops, reading those papers, digging into that lively mishmash of opinion for drift, a sense of what to see, what to hear, what to read, etc. - and I'd like to think that scene's still vital, although I understand there's been a fair amount of conglomerating, which would seem to undercut its radical roots, its funky local flavor. I'd encourage any writer with an eye for life and an ear for prose to give it a try. You can work out your chops just fine in newsprint.

  

  Charles D'Ambrosio
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Culture

• I went to drama school in the U.K., where we did endless Chekov plays.

  

  Joe Anderson
  • School
  • Drama

• I'm really not the party type. I more like to have friends over at the house and chill. I've never been the super party type. But for the 18th birthday, you got to party. And then 21 is going to be even bigger.

  

  Jacob Latimore
  • Friends
  • House
  • Party

• I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Special Skills. I was to do posters, pamphlets, murals, propaganda in general, you know.

  

  Ben Shahn