George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I'm usually late to the game on shows and watch them after they've aired. But I love 'House of Cards,' 'The Killing,' 'Orange Is the New Black,' loved 'True Detective,' and 'Arrested Development' when it was on. Also 'The Wire,' though I was way late to the game on that.
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I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.
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Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
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I hate the way chorus boxes sound.
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Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
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Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
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If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
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I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.
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I can be intense in a lot of ways, but not the way you see the guy in 'The Salvation.'
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That's what everyone said attracted them to Lantana - I call it an adult mystery, because it's not a thriller in the sense of that other way, but it is a mystery.
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One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
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You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.
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When I first decided I wanted to make beats and write songs and stuff like that, it wasn't like I sat down and the first thing I wrote was even halfway legit. It took a while to find my way through it.
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Governments of all stripes want to deliver growth and rebalance their economies now that they have learned the hard way that, left to their own devices, markets pick expensive banking losers.
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I worked my way up in the private sector and implemented Georgia's tough voter ID law.
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If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it well. That's just my character, that's just the way it is with me.
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Don't hire for the sake of hiring. Hire because there is no other way to do what you want to do.
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I started off wanting one husband and seven children, but it ended up the other way around.
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But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore.
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Teams tend to fold if you come out and play hard in the beginning.
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Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints.
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I told the commissioner that by the end of the year, I'll have pure white hair from coaching these guys. When you have young players like this, they'll drive you absolutely crazy, especially after you get spoiled by the teams I had the last couple of years.
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I collect the everyday life of feelings, thoughts, and words. I collect the life of my time.
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Get out of my way; for I won't stop for you.
