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

• Love cannot be defined, caught, cast in stone, or archived. It's something we have no control over. Love is completely analog. Love can never be digital.

  

  Vicky Krieps
  • Control

• When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.

  

  Geoffrey Beene
  • Up

• Even after I had just done Twilight, which made $400 million at the worldwide box office, I could not get financing for three or four projects that I really loved and I thought people would love because they didn't fit some studio or investor's model of thinking, "This will definitely make money." It's a business and a film does potentially cost millions of dollars, and they have to think that they're going to get their money back somehow.

  

  Catherine Hardwicke
  • Love
  • Film
  • Fit

• All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Love
  • Happiness
  • For Her

• We are choosing to invest in health now for a variety of reasons. Advances in technology hold huge promise for changing people's lives globally -- both those who are sick and those who are well. Peter Neupert brings a mix of business leadership and expertise in the health field to guide Microsoft's work in this area.

  

  Craig Mundie
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• 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