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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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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Despite the impression created by some economic pundits, the U.S. economy is not a delicate little machine that needs to be fine-tuned with exact precision by benevolent policymakers to keep from breaking down.
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No matter how many years you play, it's always something new and exciting. It's sports, you never know what may happen.
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The rest, with very little exaggeration, was books. Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books. Tall cases lined three walls of the room, filled to and beyond capacity. The overflow had been piled in stacks on the floor. There was little space left for walking, and none whatever for pacing.
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I live a pretty domestic and normal life. I make my kids breakfast most mornings, but nothing too elaborate - soft-boiled eggs and oatmeal.
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The Eerie Silence: are we alone in the universe?
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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.
