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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People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.
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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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When I'm performing, I'm not even thinking about the song. I'm thinking about the audience.
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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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My wife was as much of a soldier as I was.
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I've discovered that half the people would love to go into space and there's no need to explain it to them. The other half can't understand and I couldn't explain it to them. If someone doesn't know why, I can't explain it.
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While twentieth-century physicists were not able to identify any convincing mathematical constants underlying the fine structure, partly because such thinking has normally not been encouraged, a revolutionary suggestion was recently made by the Czech physicist Raji Heyrovska, who deduced that the fine structure constant, ...really is defined by the [golden] ratio ....
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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.
