Ben Shahn Quotes
The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far as Hoboken at that time.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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I'm 20 years old, and I still love love. I hope I'm sweet. Just your everyday girl.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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Before my son was born, I use to tell people that I was looking forward to no longer being the star of my own movie; then Harry came along, and it was like, 'Whoa, I'm really not!'
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You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
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If anyone should be executed, it should be Charles Manson. Do I go around during the daytime, 'Geez, I'm upset that he's alive'? No, I don't even think about him. I don't think about this case.
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Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.
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I think L.A. is underrated, and I love L.A., and I was born in California. But I'm pretty sure New York is the best city in the world - at least for an American guy like me.
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The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.
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If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.
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Not many people were speaking truth to power in the '80s. I had a really good time doing it - I found it gratifying. It was a joy to have an opportunity to say what you believed. It's challenging to do it in fiction, but I liked writing the novels. I liked writing 'Democracy' particularly.
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The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far as Hoboken at that time.
