Ben Shahn Quotes

I've been asked a great deal about the influence I've had with my work and it's impossible to say, you know.

Ben Shahn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkGreatInfluenceImpossibleYou

When I was a newspaper reporter, and later a television writer, I really felt my co-workers became a second family.

Jill Davis

FamilyTelevisionNewspaperReporter

I was raised in Mississippi, in a family and a community that identified as black, and I have the stories and the experiences to go with it. One of my great-great grandfathers was killed by a gang of white Prohibition patrollers.

Jesmyn Ward

FamilyCommunityBlackWhiteGo

The big issues, the things that scar Scotland - the least of them is whether we should have a border at Gretna Green or not.

Johann Lamont

GreenBorderThingsBigScotland

David Bowie, who spent most of the '70s establishing himself as a master of psychological disguises, is spending the '80s trying to convince us that he's just a regular fella - or at least as close to one as a millionaire pop star can be.

Robert Hilburn

TryingMasterConvinceStarUsJust

I remember being shocked when I came out from under the focusing cloth after a minute or two being submerged within that, at the startling green color of those ferns.

John Sexton

GreenColorRememberTwoOutWithin

I really feel like because I had my son so young, I didn't want everyone's help. I think people felt entitled to give advice, so I'm always very sensitive to moms and letting them feel their way out.

Solange Knowles

SonPeopleThinkAdviceFeelHelp

There was a very strong bipartisan coalition in Congress under President Bill Clinton that passed the Defense of Marriage Act. And you've had a majority of the states in this country that have strongly stated that marriage ought to be remain the union between one man and one woman.

Steve Scalise

MarriageWomanManStrongYouAct

I've made it a habit not to burn any bridges.

Robin Leach

HabitBridgesBurnMadeAny

You can be this super-successful woman who's smart and effective but still feminine. When I worked in finance, I didn't always think that was possible.

Ruzwana Bashir

WomanFinanceSmartThinkYouStill

I worked at CBS in the late '90s, and I remember sitting in meetings with both advertisers and digerati, and everyone was saying, 'Network TV is dead.'

Ross Levinsohn

SayingMeetingsRememberLateDead

When somebody tells you a story, as long as that story lasts, you're caught in this sort of timeless moment.

Michael Paterniti

MomentStoryLongYouTimelessSort

A person sets out to write a poem for a variety of reasons: to win the heart of his beloved; to express his attitude toward the reality surrounding him, be it a landscape or a state; to capture his state of mind at a given instant; to leave - as he thinks at that moment - a trace on the earth.

Joseph Brodsky

AttitudeHeartMomentMindWin

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