George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.
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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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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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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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Beauty is momentary in the mind - The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies; the body's beauty lives. So evenings die, in their green going, A wave, interminably flowing. So gardens die, their meek breath scenting The cowl of winter, done repenting. So maidens die, to the auroral Celebration of a maiden's choral.
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What if sometimes there is no choice about what to love? What if the temple comes to Mohammed? What if you just love? without deciding? You just do: you see her and in that instant are lost to sober account-keeping and cannot choose but to love?
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To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.
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I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.
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Genuine morality is doing what is right regardless of what we may be told; religious morality is doing what we are told.
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Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.
