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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The courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the "other side.
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expression in attractively modest terms, with no fanfare.
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That's always the question. How to defend yourself without being nasty.
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You have to understand that people feel threatened by a writer. It's very curious. He knows something they don't know. He knows how to write, and that's a subtle, disturbing quality he has. Some directors without even knowing it, resent the writer in the same way Bob Hope might resent the fact he ain't funny without twelve guys writing the jokes. The director knows the script he is carrying around on the set every day was written by someone, and that's just not something that all directors easily digest.
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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.
