George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
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As a young actor, I found myself in all these movies at once, with two big trilogies and a Cameron Crowe film and working with Ridley Scott a couple of times.
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It's mad because as a woman, you carry the baby for nine months, so you're very conscious that you have a little one inside you. But for a guy, it's suddenly, there's a baby there.
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There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.
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To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
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I was not really as good as I should have been.
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People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
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I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation of writers, 'Look, I'm interested in Ottoman things, and I'm not afraid of it, and I'm doing something creative.'
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We never take people seriously when they are alive, but once they are gone, we always think that we should have treated them better.
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We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.
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I'm at peace with my family, my friends, myself and God so there's really nothing else that I worry about.
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To some people, Common Core means what it actually is, which is a set of standards. That's not necessarily most people. To other people, Common Core is a new curriculum that's been implemented at their school that they don't understand. It's applying new teaching tools.
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Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity- * * * * * *That is not quickly buzz'd into his ears?
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There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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The old often envy the young; when they do, they are apt to treat them cruelly.
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The people who control culture in China have no culture.
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I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.
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Sometimes a miracle is a change in material conditions, such as physical healing. At other times, it is a psychological or emotional change.
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If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x × y is less than y.
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I'm a quiet person's nightmare - the only time I shut up is when I'm reading, because I'm a book geek.
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Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is the mysterious inmost quality of Being
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Outwardly I am 83, but inwardly I am every age, with the emotions and experience of each period.
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Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.
