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Ben Shahn

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

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

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"Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself."

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"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."

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"It's just that what's important there is different there than what's important is here. Here, people care that you wrote a book or that you work in the media."

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"After an eight-hour day workers require three overtime hours to produce two regular hours of results."

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"Our boss has been so successful he deserves to retire so that he can spend more time . . . with his servants."

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"A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has its price-tag on."

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"At home I am a man, at work I am a machine."

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"There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous."

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"The crew knew because they had heard from other people, and when I showed up on the set the next day, they were all looking at me kind of weird. I told them that Bill always taught me that whenever something bad like that happens, the best thing to do is work."

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Amber Hurdle

"You've got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you're gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn't work that way."

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"I felt very strongly the whole social impact of that depression, you know, and I felt very strongly about the efforts that this Resettlement Administration was trying to accomplish; resettling people, helping them, and so on."
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