George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
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Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade.
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Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.
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Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.
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Some Muslim students experience secularism as an act of aggression.
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I'd be nervous about skiing, wondering what I'd do if I felt shaky on top of a mountain; but other diabetics do ski, so there's no reason I couldn't.
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I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.
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You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
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There's such an extreme feeling to be in love, especially in quite an emotionally destructive relationship, where you're both kind of really bad for each other, but you love each other so much. Those extreme emotions, I think, can only be described with extreme imagery.
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I think just drinking juice is too extreme for a diet. Your body needs more than juice, so I think it's a very hard thing to do - very challenging and probably very unhealthy for your body. You can't get everything you need from a juice. I love juice because it can provide you with nutrients - but drink it alongside your diet!
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Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith.
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In a democracy, you have to find a market niche, make sure a novel is 'interesting' and 'spectacular.' That may be the toughest censorship of all.
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When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country.
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Sexual Harassment Legislation often creates a hostile environment, an environment of female-as-child.
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You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you … It's a small service, and there's a lot of esprit de corps.
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Is it just I who cannot found a school, or can a philosopher never do so?
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I believe in capitalism. I need to make a profit, but I would like to do it with ethics, dignity, morals. It's my dream.
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If I got a football scholarship, I was going to be a football player.
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I can only guess at the pressures of funding an independent theater company in New York, but calling this production 'postponed' does not disguise the fact that it has been canceled. This is censorship born out of fear, and the New York Theatre Workshop, the Royal Court, New York audiences--all of us are the losers.
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I'm most interested in people who've lived life in the extreme, which is what draws me to crime fiction.
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I don't think people understand the model-minority stereotype is negative. You are boxed in. You have to untangle that to find your own path.
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And no business can possibly equate happy workers community with profit effectiveness. Happy workers are much more productive workers and hence contribute to profit, but no organization is formed for the idea of pleasing its employees.
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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
