George Bernard Shaw Quotes
New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.
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I have nothing to do with opinions. I deal only with armed rebellion and its aiders and abettors.
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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
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I definitely have my opinions that I'm very vocal about and I'm not afraid to put them out there.
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Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.
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I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.
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I think whatever dress you wear, people will criticise you. Different people have different opinions.
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'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.
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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
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On occasion, a well-constructed drama can do what no reality or news program can do, what Shakespeare does brilliantly, is it can show both sides' opinions.
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Most jokes state a bitter truth.
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Recognize that dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong, and go out of your way to reward them.
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Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.
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I have opinions, sure, but they're mine, not something I'm going to insist everyone else take as any kind of gospel.
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We actually talked about Adam Sandler during the creation of 'Trolls,' because he does know how to time jokes.
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Opinions are like assholes, everbody's got one.
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I'll be the first to admit it, the life I'm leading is basically a joke. I should probably be cooler about it, but I can't fake it, you know?
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The older you get, the funnier fart jokes are.
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I'm open to doing any kind of role and any kind of genre as long as it's interesting and as long as I feel it could be a great character to play. I never take into my own personal opinions or my own public image into account when I chose movie roles.
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'Cheers' was great. They paired me up with Shelley Long on this tiny bar set for the final audition. That was my first really big one, and we just clicked instantly – I still think I got the part because of Shelley.
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When I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three.... The little advanceI now have upon this store of education, I have picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessity.
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A lot of Donna Summer and things that maybe weren't trendy anymore or weren't hip in gay clubs but you'd hear them at Taboo.
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I was a short order cook in a pool hall in college. So I am the fastest cook in the world.
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I still to this day maintain that in that million-and-a-half feet of film [Heaven's Gate] that we shot, we thought we were making a great American film. I honestly believe that Michael [Cimino] was under a tremendous amount of pressure, and Michael's response to pressure from what I saw was to double down and to get more aggressive and to get more kind of arrogant, but I don't think it was real. I think it was the response to pressure.
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New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.
