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.
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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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I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don’t like. No other criterion exists for me.
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I can count on one hand how many people I trust.
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The ability of nonintelligent people to understand the most complicated mechanisms and to use them has always been to me a cause of astonishment: their inability to understand simple questions is even more astonishing. The general acceptance of simple ideas is difficult and rare, and yet it is only when simple, fundamental, ideas have been accepted that further progress becomes possible on a higher level.
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The Games were created for the glorification of the individual champion.
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I don't relax very well, and I find it hard to sit still.
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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.
