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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'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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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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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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Other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.
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It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
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The habit of expressing loosely organized opinions is one of the most destructive of habits.
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I always hate telling my jokes in print 'cause I always feel like it reads so not funny and people read it and they think, 'Oh, so that's what that guy does in his stand-up? That's terrible.'
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We're Americans! Do you know what that means? It means our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world.
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To acknowledge the need of a new world-view would undermine the whole of their activity, and not many thinkers were willing to pay that price. Particularly not in a society where social exclusion meant rapid transportation to the proudest invention of the humanist sciences: the mental hospital.
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I'm addicted to silence and privacy; I wallow in it.
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Shame--what happened when my mother, the dragon, huffed and puffed and blew my self down.
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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.
