George Bernard Shaw Quotes
The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.
Quotes to Explore
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What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.
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With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.
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I love the exploration of someone who has such a different background from you. That exploration runs to compassion and to cracking yourself open and creating more understanding of how weird and amazing life is.
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Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.
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I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.
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I always forbade everyone to clean my studios, dust them, not only for fear they would disturb my things, but especially because I always counted on the protection of dust. It's my ally. I always let it settle where it likes. It's like a layer of protection.
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I'm more like an oven than a microwave.
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I think that the reason you keep hearing that it's the golden age of TV is because original storytelling is happening all the time in that medium, and people are hungry for it. And I'm as guilty as anyone for being part of an industry that is capitalizing on existing stories, sequels, these things that we are seeing again and again and again.
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Anyone can practice. Young man can practice. Old man can practice. Very old man can practice. Man who is sick, he can practice. Man who doesn't have strength can practice. Except lazy people; lazy people can't practice Ashtanga yoga.
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The thing we look for everywhere is, you know, music that resonates with us. This is what moves me. And hopefully my music will move someone else.
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Any civilized administration, however organized, prefers its own good to that of the people.
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Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender and one-tenth Labrador. It was the Labrador tenth that I valued most.
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Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.
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Those who know their unworthiness seize grace as a hungry man seizes bread: the self-righteous resent grace.
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Continue your quest by taking the test. Yes, but what test? What test was I supposed to take? The Kobayashi Maru? The Pepsi Challenge? Could the clue have been any more vague?
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You must believe: a poem is a holy thing - a good poem, that is. The poem, even a short time after being written, seems no miracle; unwritten, it seems something beyond the capacity of the gods.
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In Reformed theology, if God is not sovereign over the entire created order, then he is not sovereign at all. The term sovereignty too easily becomes a chimera. If God is not sovereign, then he is not God.
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The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.
