George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.
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I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
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My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.
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My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.
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This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.
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I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If I could control prople's minds, I'd like to put something useful in.
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Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.
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It's really just my Hammurabi code of journalism ethics, that I don't want to ask someone to do something that I won't do myself.
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I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel your subconscious.
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I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.
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My fear is that if we don't take remedial steps to control polio in the tribal areas, we will be faced with international sanctions.
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You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours.
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We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country is dependent on the participation of all of our citizens.
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There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether to let it affect you or not.
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Standing up to Ahmadinejad is not a partisan issue and should never be one.
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If your film is in English, it makes it that much easier to get a wide release.
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Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.
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When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became.
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I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very lucky.
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I am haunted by the demon of error - error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die.
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Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.
