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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Our cultural capital has changed tremendously on its way into the twenty-first century. Manhattan has been secured and sanitized; it's smoke- and trans-fat-free. In the boroughs, many of the old jungles have been cleared as well.
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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.
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You cannot change the way you feel until you change the way you think because your thoughts will determine the way you feel.
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To achieve contact with reality is not to transport oneself elsewhere; it is not transcendence but thorough immersion in one's surroundings - a reality which is neither purely physical nor metaphysical, but both at once.
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Here's to new blood.
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Get out of my way; for I won't stop for you.
