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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The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
Anaxagoras
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That's very rude," Myrnin said. "I haven't brought my fangs our for some time. Not in mixed company, anyway.
Rachel Caine
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I think it's important to have as much as a normal life and take the time to get perspective because it only helps your work in the long run.
Winona Ryder
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If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.
Wallace Stevens
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The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.
D. H. Lawrence
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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