George Bernard Shaw Quotes
We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill. We should have to get rid of all ideas about capital punishment.
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I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.
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Our message of a balanced budget amendment, term limits to end career politicians, and a real plan to keep America safe is resonating with voters.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.
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I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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I don't drink coffee.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
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Once it was suggested that Saddam Hussein might give his weaponry to terrorists, or might use weapons himself in the region, then it became hard for the Democrats to say, 'Well, that can't happen.'
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That's the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn't work, you try another.
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The true virtue of human beings is fitness to live together as equals; claiming nothing for themselves but what they as freely concede to everyone else; regarding command of any kind as an exceptional neccessity, and in all cases a temporary one.
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What we want is a social harmony, even as we live in a world where any idea about 'the real thing' is as likely to evoke the ancient memory of an advertisement for a soda pop as anything solid or necessary.
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The trickiest thing about the double bind is that it operates imperceptibly, like shots from a gun with a silencer.
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We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill. We should have to get rid of all ideas about capital punishment.
