George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
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In the James Cameron blockbuster 'Avatar,' 3-D cinematography is the real star. The bugs and crawling creatures seem to slither into the theater seats. The floating mountains of the planet Pandora hover gloriously overhead. And the Na'Vi, Pandora's 10-foot-tall, blue-skinned natives, come convincingly to life.
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It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue.
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I love clothes! I'll wear anything from Urban Outfitters or American Apparel.
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
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I never get tired of exploring Americana or country music, and I always have a little bit of a crooner in me that never seems to go away.
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The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.
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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
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I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
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We have always adapted ourselves to the songs instead of vice versa.
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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
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Nobody had made this wilderness, and there was no evil in it and no good; it simply was.
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America is the biggest gang in the world.
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Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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I like feeling at home and knowing people. I like talking about ideas and being friendly.
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I feel like there's something interesting to learn from anyone's story, no matter their place in society. I think we've gotten really far away from that - we're in such a celebrity-obsessed culture.
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There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
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My parents never pushed me to be an actress. You can come from a family of actors, and sometimes there have been families that grow you up as an actor, but this wasn't my situation. It's very important to find your own way because it's something you then have to confront yourself.
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Many nights he lay there dreaming awake of secret cafes in Mont Marte, where ivory women delved in romantic mysteries with diplomats and soldiers of fortune, while orchestras played Hungarian waltzes and the air was thick and exotic with intrigue and moonlight and adventure.
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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
