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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...Вы сильны лишь постольку, поскольку отбираете у людей не всё. Но человек, у которого вы отобрали всё, - уже неподвластен вам, он снова свободен.
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We need to hold Wall Street accountable for issuing the kinds of deceptive loans that nearly brought our economy to its knees in 2008.
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But, you know, once you're in government, very often you need to shoulder responsibility. I hope the new Spanish government will think about this and will therefore act accordingly. I really and sincerely hope so.
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Where psychedelics comes together with that is that it's going to require a transformation of human language and understanding to stop the momentum of the historical process, to halt nuclear proliferation, germ warfare, infantile 19th century politics, all these things. It cannot be accomplished through a frontal assault upon it by political means.
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Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him.
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Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.
