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.

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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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You know, it looks like I have a varied resume or a varied career, that I've made interesting choices, when the truth of the matter is, in a way I've just kind of piece-mealed a career together, you know?
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Reality must be expressed by a physical symbol.
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I've always liked Bernie Sanders. I've always wanted to do a Bernie Sanders impression, but I didn't believe people were familiar enough with him to pull it off. And I've gone down the rabbit hole of doing impressions that not everybody gets. It's not fun.
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.
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If I could have anything - you know, and this is across the board for any presidential candidate - I would have a greater acknowledgment of history in our policy and in our affairs.
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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.