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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Nations will rise and fall, but equality remains the ideal. The univeral aim is to achieve respect for the entire human race, not for the dominant few.
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Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don't keep buying just for the sake of it.
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I remember when I first started being in magazines, I had pretty thin skin. I was this nerd that read books and stayed home and didn't go out.
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Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.
