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.

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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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Why marry? If you're not married, you just leave each other and it's cool. Who needs the paper? To me it means nothing.
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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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Common aim is stronger than blood.
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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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The larger goal of Deep Democracy is not me changing you and you changing me. But we learning how to relate.
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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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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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Any conqueror in human history has always been ultimately someone who exists purely for the expansion of their own ego, through amounting more.
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If I tell the audience what they should think, then I am robbing them of their own imagination and their own capacity of deciding what's important to them.
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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.