George Bernard Shaw Quotes
As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.
Quotes to Explore
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If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who I always feel is looking after me.
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One thing I am sure of is that I won't judge a dance reality show.
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Free-diving is all about being lean, being super-flexible, and having a good breath hold.
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I crave a cone of silence every once in while.
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I like a full house because it's how I grew up. I'm one of six children.
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We're not curing cancer, people. I wish we were, but we're not. It's entertainment.
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In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.
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A beam of light takes about two million years to reach from us to the Andromeda nebula. But my thought covers this distance in a few seconds. Perhaps some day some intermediate form of body and mind may permit us to say that we actually can travel faster than light.
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Films do seem prestigious and glamorous, but when you create something, you want people to see it. TV still reaches so many more people; it still really appeals to me.
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For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true.
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History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.
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As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.
