George Bernard Shaw Quotes
The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.
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My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
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When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.
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When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.
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Let's face it, Obama is not a hugely popular political figure in the state of Texas.
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I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.
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I want to write songs and play them for people - live.
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I want to be an arena act. There's so many steps to take to get there, and it's so easy to get lost and cocky. I just take small steps each day.
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Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
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Kids instinctively know - although they will argue to the contrary - that they really are not mature enough to make good decisions on some important issues.
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I think I draw my inspiration from a lot of conversations that I had with people or my friends and combine them together with my own personal experience.
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Cultural values are, in themselves, neutral as well as universal, and so much depends on how individuals or ethnic groups use them. Values are influenced by so many factors such as geography, climate, religion, the economy and technology.
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One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.
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With young people, there's often that carelessness, allowing yourself to get into danger - recklessness, I suppose.
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I love the fact that we, as black people, carry our faith with us. We share it and embrace it and love it and talk about it because we talk about everything else and why not that and that was the first impression that I had that really touched me.
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There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.
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Nothing sounds worse than having to be surrounded by people you don't like in a sequined dress.
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paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.
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The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.
