George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter.

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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
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I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.
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I promised myself a long time ago that I would lead an interesting life.
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I think there are only two kinds of heroes: the flamboyant ones and the angry-yet-silent types. Every character on TV falls into either category.
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In my childhood there was every year at my old home, Roxborough, or, as it is called in Irish, Cregroostha, a great sheep-shearing that lasted many days. On the last evening there was always a dance for the shearers and their helpers, and two pipers used to sit on chairs placed on a corn-bin to make music for the dance.
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The theme of luck comes up a lot. It's something I thought about before, why some people are lucky and some people aren't lucky. It seems like some people you meet can sort of cultivate luck, and I've always been fascinated by that.
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I have been taking every step toward the future every day through making many paintings and sculptures with my deep emotion hidden in my life.
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Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through and see those whom one loves come through.
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Let no one dare to call another mad who is not himself willing to rank in the same class for every perversion and fault of judgment. Let no one dare aid in punishing another as criminal who is not willing to suffer the penalty due to his own offenses.
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Proof must be solid break walls of facts.
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Sometimes I freeze...until the light comesSometimes I fly...into the nightSometimes I fight...against the darknessSometimes I'm wrong...sometimes I'm right - Freeze (Part IV of 'Fear') (2002)
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Birthdays was the worst days; now we sip champagne when we're thirsty.
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I probably get most of my inspiration through music.
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When we started Poco, we were too country for rock, and we were too rock for country.
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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee, and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
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...ma gia volgena il mio disio e'l velle si come rota ch'igualmente e mossa, l'amor che move: i sole e l'altre stelle ...as a wheel turns smoothtly, free from jars, my will and my desire were turned by love, The love that moves the sun and the other stars.
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I think growing up in the shadow of New York shaped me for life. Hey, you come from Jersey, you get used to being dumped on by the big city.
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Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter.