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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I feel like one thing that a lot of creative people go through is that they feel like they don't have the right to be creative or to put their stuff out there. I'm glad that blogging from a young age kind of got that out of the way for me.
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When I wrote the words and I have the music, I felt, wow, you know, this has got to be right. I got to sing it right.
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We can never right the wrongs of the past.
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After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.
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What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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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.
