George Bernard Shaw Quotes
NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.
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The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
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I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
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I was born in Nashville, Tenn., but I have lived in a number of places. In 1937, I moved to Baltimore, Md., where I attended junior high and high school. I lived there for five years before leaving for college.
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The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.
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No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
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But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.
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Come dress yourself in love, let the journey begin.
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In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
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My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.
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I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.
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The total amount of energy we use every year - from coal, oil, natural gas, hydro, nuclear, and everything else - is dwarfed by the amount of solar energy hitting the planet each year.
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People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfully in politics, because most of us don't speak like Obama or Clinton.
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It's hard to say things without coming off in a certain way, but at a young age, I felt very driven. All I ever wanted to be is a soldier of cinema.
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'I like to see an angry Englishman,' said Poirot. 'They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of language.'
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… after you're dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, what's going to be your best memory of Earth? … What moment for you defines what it's like to be alive on this planet?
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NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.
