George Bernard Shaw Quotes
I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
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The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.
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It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We don't operate very well if the public doesn't trust us.
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For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
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My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.
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We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.
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I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.
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I'm a notorious late-night texter. I seem to use a lot of lip, heart, and tongue emoji.
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The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned.
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As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.
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I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.
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I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.
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When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.
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Music is the only passion I shamelessly indulge in. However, for recreation I enjoy watching movies. 'Wizard of Oz' was the first film I ever saw, followed by the 'Bond' movies. I also watch a lot of World cinema through DVDs mostly brought by one of my best friends who's now based in Toronto.
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The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize 'zero nuclear power.'
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I am at a crossroads; I have always been against armed opposition... I have chosen civil disobedience. But I will apologize to my people if there are funerals coming out of prisons. I will criticize myself and I won't be the mayor of Diyarbakir.
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Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?
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Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
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We need another wiser and perhaps more mystical concept of animals. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings, they are other Nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of earth.’
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And there is virtually no way to describe the feeling of being recognized by so many.
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Universe is the aggregate of all humanity's consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
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Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
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I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
