George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Setting a tone of inclusiveness and ensuring protection for all begins at the top, whether from the White House or the State House.
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My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism.
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I like sitting close to windows.
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I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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To single out a particular group and say we can't make a joke about them is almost a form of prejudice and it's kind of patronizing.
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There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector and the clickety-clack of the train are similar. There is the idea of the voyage - every voyage is a story. I wonder if film would have been invented without the train.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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Everywhere in the world, we're aware that democracy has incredible flaws and that the word has been used, especially in the United States, to wage wars.
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Children are the world's future, and we need to take care of them like we would any precious resource.
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I want to show every part of me and every color of me. And I think, growing up Albanian, I wanted to bring that to light.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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People are funny, and in the most tragic situations, when comedy erupts from nowhere, it can turn on its head within the space of a second or a minute. You're laughing one minute and you're crying the next and that's just life for me, and that is what people are like.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
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My customers are successful workingwomen.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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I think you just have to accept the fact that no one lives forever, and eventually things are going to come to an end, whether it's a TV show or life.
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When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts ... Who knows what use they’ll make of you? Maybe you’ll help them to persuade people to buy things they don’t need, or hate things they know nothing about, or hold beliefs that make them easy to handle, or doubt the truths that might save them.
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In the state of Alabama we have a significant number of illegal aliens that are leaving our state as occurred in Arizona after they got tough on illegal aliens.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.
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It's well to be off with the Old Woman before you're on with the New.
