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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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
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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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Few things parallel the bonding that occurs post-performance when congratulatory remarks are awarded, regrets are confessed, and gossip is exchanged.
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Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too.
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
Garry Kasparov -
Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.
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'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
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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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I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.
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Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a mocking way, not in a satirical way, but in a sincere, compassionate way - I don't think that's exploitive.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
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Most of the books that feature supernatural characters blending with the modern world and are usually set in big cities.
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The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.
