George Bernard Shaw Quotes
I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.
Quotes to Explore
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Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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There is one system of justice, demanding that all be held accountable when laws are broken.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
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Every single day, I get up and I say, 'I am going to live and not die.'
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I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don't even wear weird things.
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If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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I have an old brain but a terrific memory.
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Second thoughts, they say, are best.
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I think when you marry up like I did and Mitt Romney did, your wife says a lot about who you are and I think she humanizes him and brings a different vision of who Mitt Romney is.
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I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.
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To be honest, I watch way more dramatic films when I'm chilling at home. I think when you work in comedy, you just want something different in your private life. Makes you feel balanced, I guess.
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I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.
