Ben Shahn Quotes

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

Ben Shahn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
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  • Birth: September 12, 1898 - March 14, 1969

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It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.

Anna Freud

MotherChildrenFeelEmotionsLost

I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry.

Story Musgrave

PoetrySpaceYouLookWithinBeing

When I'm in London, it feels like I am that character who is 'Tom Odell.'

Tom Odell

CharacterI AmLondonWhoLikeTom

If you continue to plow ahead in something that is OK, you will miss the opportunity to do something that is great.

Ruth Porat

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I'll tell you from my heart, looking at their party further and further to the left, to paraphrase the director of the FBI: I think it would be extremely careless to elect Hillary Clinton.

Mike Pence

HeartLookingThinkYouPartyTell

If you own a football club, you have to be really involved and committed.

Mohamed Al-Fayed

FootballYouClubOwnCommitted

The downside of being a celebrity is that people kind of know about you, and you really don't need them to know about you - you need them to know about your work.

Jason Alexander

WorkPeopleYouKnowKindCelebrity

The magic's back, folks.

Jordan Knight

MagicBackFolks

I was 'impressed' by Hugh Jackman for five seconds the first time I met him, but as soon as he opened his mouth and shook my hand, I felt comfortable. He made me feel like I was one of his friends.

Denis Villeneuve

TimeMeFeelFriendsMouthHand

My life is an awkward visit from the kids table.

Chris Colfer

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There is no question I consider myself a feminist, but I also think the term 'feminist' has become a topical thing to say without backing it up with any real action.

Cole Sprouse

MyselfActionThinkSayBecomeReal

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

Antonin Artaud

PoetryReadingWorthWayDeadPoets

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