George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.
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What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
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For me, the greatest fault would be to tell somebody something I'm not.
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Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
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I just want to live on the road. I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night. If I'm not performing every night, I get totally depressed. I know that sounds really weird, but I hate sitting at home and not having a 1 A.M. performance now. It kills me.
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In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into everyone else's space.
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We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.
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You can't work in a steel mill and think small. Giant converters hundreds of feet high. Every night, the sky looked enormous. It was a torrent of flames - of fire. The place that Pittsburgh used to be had such scale.
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I remember in 'Pride and Prejudice' I had to do a scene where I broke down. And before we filmed I spent like three hours imagining my mum's funeral. Actually, she's very much alive, happy and healthy. It was really horrible.
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Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.
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I like to take music from everywhere and put it in my style and let it be accepted.
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If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how is it that the book is what it is?
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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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Acting is a form of confusion.
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The best times I had on film sets were the times the director let me express myself, but those were rare.
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I just write songs and hope that they do well. I'm sure there is some pressure from someone at the label, but I'd rather keep away from it.
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If you make a decision to fight for future of your own country you have to consider all the consequences.
Garry Kasparov -
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
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A lot of the Republicans wanted exactly what Barack Obama wanted, exactly what Nancy Pelosi wanted, exactly what Harry Reid wanted, which is to raise the debt ceiling, but they wanted to be able to tell what they view as their foolish, gullible constituents back home they didn't do it.
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The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.
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Bergman made countless masterpieces, but for one reason or another, 'Winter Light' stays closest to my heart.
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Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.
