George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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Around 2005, the Canadian army tapped me to do a dramatization for a series of foresight workshops they'd done. They had stacks of papers and needed it boiled down to something simple enough for a 4-star general to understand. We decided to do it as a story. That's how I created 'Crisis in Zefra.'
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Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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I have been cooking with preserved lemon for years, using it left, right and centre, but I am still far from reaching my limit.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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The secret to a long-lasting relationship is perpetually imagining the worst. It's a world view tracing back to my Eastern European ancestry and one I draw upon regularly.
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The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
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We want to beat the best team in the world.
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Even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing underneath the same bright star.
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Depression has been called the world's number one public health problem. In fact, depression is so widespread it is considered the common cold of psychiatric disturbances. But there is a grim difference between depression and a cold. Depression can kill you.
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A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
