George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
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Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
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That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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Football is losing its heart and sense of humour.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
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I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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I want to write my own stuff, and, you know, it would be nice to put myself in it. But I would like to hope that there are going to be better roles offered as well and that I don't need to do everything. You know, like, I appreciate my career being somewhat DIY, but it would be nice to get some help.
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I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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Only silence perfects silence.
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I think Cate Blanchett is fabulous - she just shines in everything she does - and I'm a big Susan Sarandon fan.
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It is better to suffer an injustice than to commit one.
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A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymously in the life of some ex-student's grandchild. A teacher, finally, has nothing to go on but faith, a student nothing to offer in return but testimony.
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Nothing in life and nothing that we do is risk-free.
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I see someone like John Williams, the classical player, and the amount of discipline and the natural ability that man has is so frightening. That requires so much natural talent. And I think my talent came from just practising, and I feel a bit intimidated when I see players that good.
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Life is too short for men to take it seriously.
