George Bernard Shaw Quotes
I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian. It was Shelley who first opened my eyes to the savagery of my diet.
Quotes to Explore
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The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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There's a time and place for everything. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.
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My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.
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The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.
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I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.
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Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.
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A secret is a secret in my mind.
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The more local and settled a culture, the better it stays put, the less the damage. It is the foreigner whose road of excess leads to a desert … a man with a machine and inadequate culture … is a pestilence. He shakes more than he can hold.
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When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.
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Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.
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I shudder to think. I might wear lace collars and laugh flower petals and pearls. People might try to pat me. I see them think it. My height triggers the puppy-kitten reflex- Must touch-and I've found that since you can't electrify yourself like a fence, the next best thing is to have murderer's eyes.
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I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian. It was Shelley who first opened my eyes to the savagery of my diet.
