George Bernard Shaw Quotes
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
Quotes to Explore
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God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.
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If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.
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I worked with Herb Ritts on the Marky Mark shoot, and then Steven Meisel, and then they'd start sending limos for me, and I was like, 'That is so embarrassing. I'm not getting in a stretch limo by myself to go to a shoot.' That whole New York thing of, 'You are fabulous! Turn up to a Meisel shoot in a limo and you're fabulous!'
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.
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There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.
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Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.
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I remember the great atmosphere and the great stadium.
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I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
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Adult characters are all the things they've encountered over time. But kids haven't accumulated all the life experience, all the regrets. They tend to be more in the moment, more willing to play, to be joyful.
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I love to sing all kinds of music, but I know that my heart is for people to know God, and I want them to experience his love.
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'For a long time I used to think that anal sex was how lawyers were conceived.'
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I love fashion! I love clothes! I really like vintage clothes, so in my closet there's a lot of '50s stuff. I go to the stores and shop around.
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The punishment of shaving a woman's head had biblical origins. In Europe, the practice dated back to the Dark Ages with the Visigoths.
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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
