George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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Sometimes you just wonder whether people just don't have the sensitivity or decency. I'm a member of the media myself: I host a talk show. I know sometimes when you want to ask something, you can circumvent it with words and vocabulary. You don't suddenly just go out there and ask something directly in the pretense of being absolutely candid.
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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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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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Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
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I really don't know life without wrestling.
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I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.
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When I approach guys in certain situations and talk to them about Christ, they know that I'm speaking to them in a way that's real.
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Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.
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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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It was always sort of my dream to make handbags and I wanted a handbag that was very sharp, very structured, very tailored... I wanted a bag you could put all of your things in it, you can open it, you could close it, you could hid all your tricks, but it's not all lumpy.
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We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.
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Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them.
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Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.
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I'm just a worker.
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My very first job was a cashier at Burger King in Tucson, Arizona. And I occasionally worked the drive-thru. I'd go wherever I was needed! My second job was at Dairy Queen. I stayed in the fast food royalty.
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My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
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I feel like if you enjoyed the 119 hours that precede the finale of 'Lost,' is that whole experience ruined by the fact that you might not agree with everything that we did in the finale? I would hope not! I would hope that you would appreciate the fact that you were entertained for 119 hours even if you didn't love the finale.
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Truth was truth, whether I darkened my eyes to it or not.
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The loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon me. There is not a man aboard but hates or fears him, nor is there a man whom he does not despise.
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You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.
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This music that was supposed to only come from tapes like in any restaurant. Something would happened. One bird will start to do a little jazz thing, and another bird will start to answer.
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I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.
