George Bernard Shaw Quotes

The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.

George Bernard Shaw

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• I never thought that I would become a staple in the Australian cultural diet. The equivalent of bread or milk, or a fine old Tasmanian Mauve Vein. I think it's because I talk about things that people dare not mention. I don't mean raunchy things or unsavoury things. I call a spade a spade - I discuss things in a realistic manner.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • People
  • Thought
  • Diet

• Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Know

• I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.

  

  Samuel Alito
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mind

• Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • May
  • Growth
  • Moral

• I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Love
  • Made
  • I Love

• Extremism is always potentially dangerous, but in Hungary's political reality, Jobbik and the other far-right parties have no chance of having a major influence.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Reality
  • Political
  • Chance

• We must remember that as the centuries go by, time will pass.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Will

• I'd say 80 percent of my auditions go very horribly.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Say
  • Percent
  • Auditions

• Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Marriage
  • Gay
  • Gay Marriage

• One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Work
  • Great
  • Society

• When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Work
  • Live
  • Strange

• I think it's very important that the United States keeps out of the local electoral process in Mexico.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Important
  • Think
  • Process

• I used to dress like Roger Taylor when I was ten because I thought he was cool. In high school, I used to dress like Stephen Perkins from Jane's Addiction because I thought he was cool. You just want to be those guys when you're that age.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • School
  • High
  • Age

• It is a great honor for me to be able to express my sincere gratitude to the Nobel Foundation.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Great
  • Honor
  • Gratitude

• If you do something wrong, it's going to be all over the place. Not only does that go for me, but anyone in here. You just really have to be aware of it.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • You
  • Me
  • Wrong

• I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • History
  • Never
  • Dramatic

• In hindsight, if I could go back in time and relay a message to my younger self, I would tell him to work on his time keeping, and that the job of a drummer is not to be the one that gets noticed the most on stage, or to be the fastest, or the loudest. Above all, it is to be the timekeeper.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Time
  • Work
  • Job

• I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Dad
  • College
  • Worked

• I like telling stories, I like movies, and I want to work on films. I think I would feel safer behind the camera.

  

  Suraj Sharma
  • Movies
  • Camera
  • Safer

• What is the origin of the urge, the fascincation that drives physicists, mathematicians, and presumably other scientists as well? Psychoanalysis suggests that it is sexual curiosity. You start by asking where little babies come from, one thing leads to another, and you find yourself preparing nitroglycerine or solving differential equations. This explanation is somewhat irritating, and therefore probably basically correct.

  

  David Ruelle
  • Science
  • Finding
  • Explanation

• In general, people are comfortable sharing their music. There are two exceptions, though - Lady Gaga and Britney Spears.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • People
  • Music
  • Sharing

• The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Camera
  • Flesh
  • Represent