George Bernard Shaw Quotes
If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.
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Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.
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I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.
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I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
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I'm definitely a Tory. My dad was a Conservative councillor, and I spent years as a child knocking on doors with him. I'm a Tory because I'm passionate about business and enterprise. But I am also a compassionate Conservative. There should always be a net through which no one should fall.
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I did some good things as a rookie.
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Actually, I was born Adam Zachary Orth. Zak is short for my middle name. I was never called Adam.
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When the iPhone came out, every CIO in America said, 'You're not bringing that into our corporate environment,' my CIO included.
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I've learned 90 percent of what I know from watching and listening to actors. A good leading actor is the rock of the show. Their energy and their tone really sets the groundwork for how everything is going to work. I've been lucky to deal with stars who are very giving and generous.
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Food service is a growth area for PepsiCo.
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Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.
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I think things happened the way they did for a reason.
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'Dark Gods,' T. E. D. Klein's book of four novellas, felt like a godsend - even if it came from a deformed god, one that lurked beneath our sidewalks.
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I want to tell President Sarkozy - and through him, all the French people - that they were our support, our light.
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I was so embarrassed about mispronouncing words. I just knew how to smile.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I've always admired comedians. Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There's a liberation in that.
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One of the things I learned as a young semiotics nerd was that if you have plot moving forward, no matter how banal the facts of it, simply the fact that the plot is rolling forward makes you wonder what's going to happen next, which creates suspense. So you can control peoples' attention simply by having things move forward in a story.
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When I was still drinking, I thought I was kind of in control of everything in my life and other people's lives and realized at some point that that just wasn't the case at all.
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I'm interested in what happens to music when other people use it. Whereas there are composers who don't like anyone to touch their music, I think people should because they do things I can't think of.
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If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.
