George Bernard Shaw Quotes
If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.
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A lot of women find that their workwear acts as armour.
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Fitzgerald was a modernist.
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Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe. But the danger of a solipsistic society will grow, of a disconnected society of mirror-watchers and navel-gazers.
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I am now writing a book called 'Far Enough,' very loosely based on my childhood. This is difficult because it forces me to remember people I loved who are gone.
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A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.
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I own a Hangman jumper, which looks like a scarf, but that's what it's called. It cost a fortune, but it was worth it.
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Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.
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I really hate to write.
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I guess I've always been really attracted to period pieces and always felt visually I was probably more made for the '50s or the early '60s than I am for a modern day.
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Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous. I just wanted to have mastered the art of sketch comedy.
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I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.
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Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money.
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You can't fake being a star. But you can also become a great personality.
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In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like medicine or engineering, it had a definite, valuable purpose: to foster 'comprehension.'
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As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always in a good way.
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Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
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It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.
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The thing that I love about 'Scandal' is every character, it's not clear if they're good or bad. Everyone is both good and bad.
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Honestly, there's so many great benefits of wearing a kilt: It's very free, it's got its own aeration, and they're very comfortable.
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A government that understands the limits of power as well as its potential.
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This is the real unwritten rule: You don't want what you know you shouldn't. And I haven't just broken that rule. I have wrecked it, smashed it, and still... And still I want.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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This naturally occurring event has overtaken our ability to stop its progression.
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If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.
