George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not.
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I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?
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I know firsthand the complexities of leading an enterprise through business and technology transformation. It takes intense focus, a strong drive, and a clearly communicated vision to inspire and take an organization from where they are, to where they need to be - or where they want to go.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
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Be true to yourself and go with your instincts - don't be somebody you're not just to fit in.
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If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.
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As a child, I had lived many years in Southampton and sang in the choir of the Dune Church.
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Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
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I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
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I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?'
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My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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I think we're a deeper team, a better team, we still have work to do... nothing is guaranteed, but hopefully we got the mentality to play on the road, and we're starting to get our home thing back in order now-if we can do that we'll be just fine.
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Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
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There is much to be said for an emissions trading scheme. It was, after all, the mechanism for emission reduction ultimately chosen by the Howard government.
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The sum total of karma is God.
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Many of the fights that are going on are not ones that the United States has either started or have a role in. The Shia-- Sunni split, the dictatorships that have suppressed people's aspirations, the increasing globalization without any real safety valve for people to have a better life. We saw that in Egypt. We saw a dictator overthrown, we saw Muslim Brotherhood president installed and then we saw him ousted and the army back.
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To call somebody a Jewish composer is obviously redundant.
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Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something holy.
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All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity.
