George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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If you want to change things, it requires bravery.
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So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
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Democracy is not about one party dominating.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.
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Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.
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It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.
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Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.
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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
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My friends love coming over because they get fed.
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What is it about Iowa? I'm the shortest guy in the state.
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There are writers who pour out words, concepts that sound really important but that basically say nothing. I always tried to be as concise as possible, all to try and reach everyone, but especially the simple people, those who needed to be reached more than anyone else.
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We live in a gray world, and I want to tell gray stories.
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On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave; No torrents stain thy limpid source, No rocks impede thy dimpling course, That sweetly warbles o'er its bed, With white, round, polish'd pebbles spread.
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Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
