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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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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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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I certify to Your Highnesses that in the world I believe that there are no better people nor better land. They love their neighbors as themselves, and have a speech that is sweetest in the world, and mild and always laughing.
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One of the things I would love for people to think about is social responsibility. If you are fortunate enough to be someone who owns land, I think you ought to be making the most efficient use of that land possible.
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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My music is going to be true. I'm not out to sell records. I'm experiencing something, and it's what I feel.
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I think I once went three or four years without doing a play, and I almost lost my mind, then I came back and did 'Spamalot.'
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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.
