Ben Shahn Quotes
An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.
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We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.
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Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.
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You gotta understand, you can't look at no pictures and look at the media and the critics and what they saying on no Internet.
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I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
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Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.
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We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
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For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.
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You have to be proud of who you are.
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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Using adult stem cells drawn from bone marrow and umbilical cord blood system cells, scientists have discovered new treatments for scores of diseases and conditions such as Parkinson's disease, juvenile diabetes, and spinal cord injuries.
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I used to have a very difficult childhood because I was always the tallest girl in school, and everybody was staring at me and saying, 'You are very different.' Now, different is good.
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In a much larger sense, the problem of Sabah is directly influenced by the duplicity of imperial Britain. For whatever devious reason, the dismantling of the British empire created divisions and violence due to ethnic and religious differences.
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The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.
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We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scutter.
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One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.
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It's true, you never forget your first love, and, for me, that will always be Paris.
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You would not believe that Paula Patton and I have the same trainer.
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If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.
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I'm all those things, even though I don't want to, in the confuse depth of my fatal sensibility.
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It feels great to know that more people are finding work and gaining the experience, not to mention self-confidence, that they need.
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Ronald Reagan - 'Grandpa Caligula'; 'Ronald McReagan' - No More Coccoons
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The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.
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Crazy Joe Scarborough and dumb as a rock Mika are not bad people, but their low rated show is dominated by their NBC bosses. Too bad!
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An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.
