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Shel Silverstein Quotes

When I was younger, I wasn't making it, and I was mad at everybody who was.

Shel Silverstein

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Mad Who Making Everybody Younger

I had my Olympic gold medal cut up into eleven pieces. Gave all eleven of my kids a piece. It'll come together again when they put me down.

Together Me Gold Down Up Pieces

I have a list of ideas that I want to do for my art series, but I'm always trying to figure out what's going to work. Ever since I was in art school, I would read and get ideas. Sometimes the photograph sparks an idea in me, and I continue in that direction.

Work Art School Me Ideas Direction

Sometimes you can be one of the best, but you don't accept that if you don't get the ring or win the Super Bowl. There's a lot of good teams between the Super Bowl winner and other teams. Once the Super Bowl is over, we lump everyone into the other 31, and that's not fair.

Good Best Win Winner You Sometimes

Economies are risky. Some industries rise, and others implode, like housing. Some places get richer, and others drop, like Atlantic City. Some people get new jobs that pay better, many lose their jobs or their wages.

People City Better Lose Rise New

I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.

Robert Staughton Lynd

Quiet Sometimes Difficulties Half

When you find a way to be really receptive to your child's needs and really listen, you can be more open to what they say they want or what they say they need.

Child You Find Say Want Way

I have some English words on the first album, but any time I try to do it, you miss something. You think it's just a simple translation from French to English, but it's so different as far as the understanding.

Time Simple Words Think You Try

On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe.

Dog Live Desert Go Want Hand

I've always operated so far outside my lane, I'm not sure what lane is mine anymore.

Michael T. Flynn

Outside Always Lane Mine Sure Far

People laugh at me because I don't even know what I'm doing tomorrow.

Lorenzo di Bonaventura

Tomorrow People Me Laugh Doing Know

I think in London - and I don't wanna offend anybody in America, but this is a real statement - they still have the right approach to making music. In the U.S., people see it as a way to make money; they see it as a means to get out. It's a hustle, which is great - any way you can provide for your family that's legal is fantastic.

Family Music Great Money People You

In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.

White Person Skin Young Vote Land

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