George Bernard Shaw Quotes
I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures.
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Engaged, enthusiastic, and loyal employees are pivotal drivers of growth and health in any organization.
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Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine. We only aim to de-legitimize the settlement activities and the occupation and apartheid and the logic of ruthless force, and we believe that all the countries of the world stand with us in this regard.
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If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
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I'm hardly macho. I present myself as very unnoticeable.
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I'm not doing no more 'Flavor of Loves.' I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page. You can't stay on the same page in order to get to the next chap.
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I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.
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As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
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Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.
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Becoming a tutor was among the many attractive post-collegiate side careers I failed to pursue while devoting the bulk of my days to writing fiction.
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It's difficult to act in a language that's not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it and feel confident with it.
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Choose to be kind. Choose to forgive. Let your love grow and shine so that people may look at the example of your life and glorify God in Heaven.
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If people are worried, if they're fearful, if they feel a sense of grievance or that they're not being treated properly or that they're not being paid fairly, what you're going to have is you're going to have people doing the minimum amount of work necessary to not get fired, and not a peppercorn more.
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Music has to change. I don't want to stay the same forever.
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As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.
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At the end of the day, my life isn't about other people's work. I've got to stop giving stuff away. I've got my own stories to tell, and a great need to tell them. I've got these images, these thoughts in my head, and I need to find a way to cope with them.
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I like characters with character, not just pretty faces. Anyway, I think people can be both grotesque and beautiful at the same time. Look at Mick Jagger in the seventies. Look at Angelina Jolie.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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The most resonant crimes are the ones in which the victim is most innocent, or perceived as innocent. Blaming the victim is tempting; it offers an out.
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I went through a stage of writing my cramped hand in tiny books. My two sisters and I did have our Bronte period. My mum is from Yorkshire, and we would go up to the Moors. It tapped into our romantic visions of ourselves.
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He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
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I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.
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Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.
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I am now satisfied that the future music of this country must be founded upon what are called negro melodies. This must be the real foundation of any serious and original school of composition to be developed in the United States.
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I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures.
