George Bernard Shaw Quotes
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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It's scary to become a woman in this world. We have to understand that some of the messages we get, messages that we are not enough, are there to keep our power in check. We can't buy into these messages.
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Monologues are self-verifying and self-referencing, a world in their own right, one with its own internal logic that strengthens with reiteration.
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Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.
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Real luxury is customization.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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The reader is going to imprint on the characters he sees first. He is going to expect to see these people often, to have them figure largely into the story, possibly to care about them. Usually, this will be the protagonist.
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The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily.
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People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.
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Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II.
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In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the 'we' rather than the 'I.'
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In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere.
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To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.
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Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps, the United Nations works tirelessly, around the clock around the world.
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In high school, I was doing my magazine 'Rookie' and a lot of writing, and I became a little less interested in the fashion world. I was approached by an agent for writing, and I said I wanted to act as well. They sent me scripts, and then I got my first Broadway play, 'This Is Our Youth'.
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I was a child actor, so when I started filming when I was five years old, it was a long time ago.
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When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.
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I like Twitter a lot. It is a great way to get the fans knowing another side of you.
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This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn't engage anybody.
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I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
