George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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You can bring people together around the issue of economic fairness. I don't want to be a mayor that goes into one neighborhood and gets jeered, and goes into another neighborhood and gets cheered.
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I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
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My mom taught me the power of love. I learned to focus on the long-term big picture from my father. His sense of humor and light-hearted approach always make me smile. My husband is a pivotal anchor in my life. His influence encourages me to be independent and take risks.
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I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
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I could actually be somebody that, if you showed me new gun-control legislation could help solve this problem, I might actually be able to support something like that.
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We have Sunday morning breakfast before church. I don't do the dishes, but I do cook. I'm the griller.
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People ask me about the decision to transition from fashion to 'Rookie' magazine. But it wasn't a decision. I was 14, and my interests were changing.
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I cried when I found out I was a finalist, I kind of went limp when they called my name. I felt like my spirit jumped out of my body, and I was just flesh - it was just amazing.
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Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.
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I'm not a designer, nor do I fancy myself a designer.
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As for their healers and their worship of gold books of old lore, there had been tribal stories of this, too, all nonsense, as anything chattered by the ill-informed must be.
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He didn’t like concentrated responsibility. Agreement with other people who he thought were good, right minded, and trying to do the right thing by the world was almost as necessary to him as air to breathe.
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District of Columbia welfare. The welfare work of the District of Columbia is administered by several different boards dealing with charities and various correctional efforts. It would be an improvement if this work were consolidated and placed under the direction of a single commission.
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Although the capacity to become schizophrenic may well be within all of us, there is no question that certain persons have distinctive genes predisposing them to the condition.
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Of those to whom much is given, much is asked. I cannot say and no man could say that no more will be asked of us.
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I was on a train of lies. I couldn't jump off.
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My first album didn't come out until I was 27, which in pop years is late, you know. But when it came time to arrange it, I became a kid in a toy shop. I had a harp and a saxophone quartet and a symphony orchestra. I went berserk for a time.
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Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, ‘I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.
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The smallest oceans still make big big waves.
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Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.
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What I see increasingly is that companies are playing political roles. We should actually have our research and our laws map that.
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Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.
