George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
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But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.
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Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.
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One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.' I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class - cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl!
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If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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I just had fun making the movies - just being on set - but I didn't really care about the acting part.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.
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Even when I turn 60, they'll call me a child actor.
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I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.
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The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now.
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Women have a tendency not to give up realms once they take over new ones. We are still proprietary over the domestic realm even as we take over new professional realms, and that is a real problem.
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When I was in my 20s, I thought I knew who I was. And then as soon as I turned 30, I realized that person has bruises and bumps and dark parts. And you kind of go, well, that's it. I'd rather embrace it than force myself to change.
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There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.
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Technology has not only changed the way people are able to view movies, it has changed the way our industry produces and advertises movies.
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The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.
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To be understood is to prostitute yourself.
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It would be great if you could cool the water and immobilise the molecules, though keeping the structure, because when it's frozen, when it's immobilised, you can have it in the electron microscope and the water will not evaporate because in the electron microscope, it must be under vacuum, and water at normal temperature evaporates.
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I'm always very scared when I start a movie because I never know if I'm going to be able to do a good job or do a very bad job.
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I never see how meaty my role is. If I like the script in its entirety, the director, or if my co-star is someone I greatly admire, I sign up. You learn so much being part of a great team.
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I don't have secrets in my life. Everything is out there.
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Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.
