George Bernard Shaw Quotes
THE HE-ANCIENT: When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truthSTREPHON: Yes; and take all the fun out of it.
Quotes to Explore
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.
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I have five horses. My first was a professional jumper named Santos. I got him when I was 18.
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I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.
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Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.
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When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.
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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. I'm an escapist kind of writer.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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Whether it's threats to Medicare, cuts in education spending, or Internet privacy, the ramifications got young people out to vote and should be enough to keep them involved in our political system.
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I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.
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I don't like business talkers, you know, people who are constantly like, 'Blah blah blah movies.' I find it incredibly boring.
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Health care is the No. 1 concern of small businesses and the status quo is untenable.
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Sometimes I only succeed in beating myself to death.
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It is important we don't become complacent, do our job and stay professional.
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The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch.
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'I think the Moon is a world like this one, and the Earth is its moon.' My friends greeted this with a burst of laughter. 'And maybe,' I told them, 'someone on the Moon is even now making fun of someone else who says that our globe is a world.'
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THE HE-ANCIENT: When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truthSTREPHON: Yes; and take all the fun out of it.
