George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
Fernando Botero
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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
Federico Fellini
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I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.
Abigail Johnson
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Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.
Gary Snyder
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Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.
Harold Washington
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The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry.
Dan Jenkins
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I miss Colombia. It's a great place.
Camilo Villegas
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I'm in a loft and the kitchen is in the very center of the apartment. The whole place revolves around it.
Ted Allen
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I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.
Larry David
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Actors in general have some place in them that can be sensitive and easily damaged: not damaged in a bad way, but insecurity, because that's what it breeds, especially in females and female-lead types.
Kaitlin Doubleday
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A desert is a place without expectation.
Nadine Gordimer
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I cannot imagine a more enjoyable place to work than in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology where I work.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.
Fidel Castro
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I won't tell anyone where my favourite place in Scotland is... but it might be somewhere on Skye.
Sam Heughan
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Mixing in some rusty oranges is a warm way to update your place for fall.
Nate Berkus
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But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically.
Edie Brickell
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When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Shops are not a growing business, so it's a scary place to be.
Galen Weston
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I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.
Wanda Sykes
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I love Memphis, I guess you could say, in the way that you love a brother even if he does sometimes puzzle and sadden and frustrate you. Say what you want about it, it's an authentic place. I was born and raised in Memphis, and no matter where I go, Memphis belongs to me, and I to it.
Hampton Sides
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I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.
John Barrymore
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Biologists can be divided into two classes: experimentalists who observe things that cannot be explained, and theoreticians who explain things that cannot be observed.
Aharon Katzir
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All books can be indecent books, though recent books are bolder. For filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder. When correctly viewed, everything is lewd. I could tell you things about Peter Pan and the Wizard of OZ, there's a dirty old man!
Tom Lehrer
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Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.
George Bernard Shaw