George Bernard Shaw Quotes
The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.
Quotes to Explore
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I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
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When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.
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I make M-rated games for adults, you know, with guys wearing sunglasses at night and trench coats.
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To strip a man of all loyalties but those to the state, makes him not only a worm but a monster, without a shred of humanity.
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On the radio there's only a certain amount of artists: Jay-Z, Beyonce, Kanye, T-Pain, Lil Wayne, T.I., Mary J Blige, Alicia Keys. Other artists are achieving things that are really special, they have a hard time getting people's attention. Music has been just a little bit lacklustre.
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The Communist Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy; and one means: the utilization of the class struggle.
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The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?
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I have always believed that chemistry can't be created between two people. You either have it or you don't. The script can only enhance it.
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Coming to a team like the Spurs, you're automatically going to learn how to play the game the right way.
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My wife, Donna, is a fantastic cook!
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Oh God! I'm going to miss him. I can’t yet imagine life without him. But I guess with God’s help... I'll learn. I keep looking at the photo he gave me of himself, which says, 'To my true love Elizabeth, I love you forever.' And, I will love HIM forever.
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That's my hunger. If I start to relax, and I lose that, then I had better stop my football. I need that hunger. I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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Applied knowledge in the Renaissance had to take the form of translation of the auditory into visual terms, of the plastic into retinal form. (p. 180)
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Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections; so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways.
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The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.
