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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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant 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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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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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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You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.
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At what point does a fly give up trying to escape through a closed window – do its survival instincts keep it going until it is physically capable of no more, or does it eventually learn after one crash too many that there is no way out? At what point do you decide that enough is enough?
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The computer can do a much better job than the human eye, as it is much more systematic in analysing tissues.
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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.
