George Bernard Shaw Quotes
I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.
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I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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If you were my friend, I love you unconditionally. I like you the same way I like everyone else that's around me.
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There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.
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In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.
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Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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It's better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even five of those somethings, that you'll never bother to take out of the shopping bag. By the way, this advice also applies to discount love interests. And half-price sushi.
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Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
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Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
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I'm over the hill, maybe even the whole mountain range, but I don't see it that way even one little bit.
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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
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Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
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Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
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All labels are offensive in some way.
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I started gigging when I was about 16, and I was way too young to be in the clubs.
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I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.
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My students often ask me, 'What is sociology?' And I tell them, 'It's the study of the way in which human beings are shaped by things that they don't see.'
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...existence has become an unreasoning, wild dance around the golden calf, a mad worship of God Mammon. In that dance and in that worship man has sacrificed all his finer qualities of the heart and soul — kindness and justice, honor and manhood, compassion and sympathy with his fellowman.
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It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.
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The Germans only have one player under 22, and he's 23!
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I don't have any ambitions as an actor. I felt very uncomfortable doing it. The first take every day I'd open my mouth and no words would come out. I'd do a couple of takes and eventually I could run the lines.
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I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.
