George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.
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Weirdly, my nickname was Lady. I didn't get Stretch, or Stilts, or Spider Legs - I got Lady. I guess I was always a bit ladylike.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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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've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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I love that I'm rarely recognized. I like it because I know I can look different from film to film.
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But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.
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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
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I go to Buzzfeed and 'Huff Po,' IMDB, 'Deadline.' And then I just Google myself, like 'Aasif Mandvi in a hat,' and see what comes up.
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The honest truth is no, I don't feel like I arrived. I don't feel like I'm worthy. My publicist says I'm not supposed to say that, but I don't feel I'm there yet.
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I guess probably in my time in politics, it continued to be affirmed to me that the African-American community, despite being subscription television's most valuable customers, they are very underserved by cable and satellite television programming options.
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Human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.
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I told Mr. Nader today that a vote for Ralph Nader is really a vote for George Bush.
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Not all paintings are abstract; they're not all Jackson Pollock. There's value in a photograph of a man alone on a boat at sea, and there is value in painting of a man alone on a boat at sea. In the painting, the painting has more freedom to express an idea, more latitude in being able to elicit certain emotion.
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The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.
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Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.
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I went to L'Academie de Cuisine in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and I think French cooking is the basis for a lot of classical cuisine, a foundation of a lot of other cuisines. That said, it's not the only way to approach a cooking career.
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The rise of African nations concurrent with the spread of the Nation of Islam and the civil rights movement gave black America a burst of pride over and above anything they had had since the decline of the movement of Marcus Garvey.
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I never looked good in a bikini. My legs were too thin.
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Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.
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I am mentally strong.
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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
