George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.
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The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
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Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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I'm not a materialistic person.
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I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained.
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Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.
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Ideas matter. Legislative proposals matter. Slick campaigns and dazzling speeches can work for a while, but the magic always wears off.
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Alexander, were you looking for me?
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Thirty is not an age for a woman anymore.
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Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.
