George Bernard Shaw Quotes
I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest record of it should be preserved . . . But it would have driven me mad; and I am not sure that the author came out of it without a slight derangement.
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.
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I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
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Cyclists need to help themselves and should not jump red lights. I would ride in London, but I certainly wouldn't ride like that; you just have to be careful. I can understand going down the outside of traffic, but you should obey the rules of the road because we're all road users.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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Detroit's a good investment because, first of all, the entry fee for everything is lower. And, you've got the talent that is here that is ambitious and motivated, so you're going to get in on a much lower cost structure in every way, shape, or form from labor to buildings to whatever.
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I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.
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Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
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The best way to learn how to work with actors is to have had experience of trying to act yourself - it will teach you humility if nothing else.
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To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.
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Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.
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Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.
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I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest record of it should be preserved . . . But it would have driven me mad; and I am not sure that the author came out of it without a slight derangement.
