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Shel Silverstein Quotes

I'm free to leave... go wherever I please, do whatever I want; I believe everyone should live like that. Don't be dependent on anyone else - man, woman, child, or dog.

Shel Silverstein

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: September 25, 1930 - May 10, 1999

Topics

Dog Live Woman Man Child Believe

I never heard in my entire life that a man was overprepared for anything. I am overprepared in my life. What's wrong with being ambitious, being overprepared, being one step ahead?

Jessica Chastain

Life Man I Am Step My Life Wrong

I never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of healing and in the psychological dimension rather early on.

Robert Jay Lifton

Myself Healing Doctor Early White

I wanted to be a boy when I was young because boys got to do all the good stuff. So I became very aggressive and very competitive at a young age.

Amy Madigan

Good Age Young Boy Aggressive Stuff

I published 'Rules of Civility' while I was still working. It became a best seller. I was working on this book, and then I decided to retire.

Amor Towles

Best Book Rules Civility Retire

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn't been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

Steve Jobs

Science Great Best People Amazing

Any director who's also acted understands the fact that every person has a different process and has to be approached differently.

Steve Zahn

Process Person Director Different

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.

Mignon McLaughlin

Learning Learn Never Limitations Our

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

Diogenes

Tongue Talk Listen More Two Ears

I'd call my work 'instinctual design.' I like to find the spirit of a piece that defies time, age, and occasion. My clothes give the wearer the chance to develop their own voice within a wardrobe, and I think of them as curators of their personal style.

Chris Benz

Work Age Time Style Chance Think

I went out every single night so I was never alone with my stepfather. At 12, I stopped going on holiday with them. The times I was alone with him I always made sure I was all covered up.

Christine Keeler

Alone Night Holiday Never Single Up

My mom makes something called green pie, which I thought was a delicacy that many people only had at Thanksgiving, but it turns out it was just Jell-O with whipped cream on it. And it's delicious.

Bobby Moynihan

People Mom Green Thought Pie Out

It would be a great vacation to act in a movie if I weren't directing it. But to do it while you're directing interferes with your concentration, and I wouldn't do that again.

Sydney Pollack

Great Vacation You Act Concentration