George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I think Bhutanese food - long dissed by every food writer out there - has gotten a bum rap.
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My research process doesn't vary much. I do a little reading to establish a timeline and decide how I'm going to approach the story.
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People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.
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You look at Richard Pryor and Robert Klein and George Carlin and Richard Lewis - those guys were so smart, they were the thinking-man stand-ups.
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Danny and I wrote 10 songs in seven days, which I thought might be close to the record until you probably look at some of the Beatles statistics.
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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for? I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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I've consciously taken on material that's a bit too much for me but not an overreach. The first movie, just about performances. 'The Town,' I learned how to work broader material, develop tension, direct bigger scenes, action sequences. 'Argo,' I experimented with film stock, widened the scope of my geography.
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Keith Ellison is an organizer's organizer.He's one of the only Muslims in Congress, so you have a big statement there.
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That a man lives is because he is straight. That a man who dupes others survives is because he has been fortunate enough to be spared.
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Heaven will smile on us again.
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Sarcasm is a Manchester trait.
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My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you.
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My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.
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Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before.
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The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.
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I've been playing a lot of really strong, able woman, but I think it would be really fun to play a crazy drug addict, or something.
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That's what fame does to you. You acquire another self.
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There are very powerful and wealthy special interests who want to privatize or dismember virtually every function that government now performs, whether it is Social Security, Medicare, public education or the Postal Service.
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Nature is like a wild animal that you have trained to work for you. So long as you are vigilant and walk warily with thought and care, so long will it give you its aid, but look away for an instant, be heedless or forgetful, and it has you by the throat.
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Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.
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Making mistakes is part of learning to choose well. No way around it. Choices are thrust upon us, and we don't always get things right. Even postponing or avoiding a decision can become a choice that carries heavy consequences. Mistakes can be painful-sometimes they cause irrevocable harm-but welcome to Earth. Poor choices are part of growing up, and part of life. You will make bad choices, and you will be affected by the poor choices of others. We must rise above such things.
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It's surprising how much wisdom every man possesses -- if not for his own affairs, then for the affairs of others.
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Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.
