George Bernard Shaw Quotes
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
Quotes to Explore
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
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I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
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I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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Being on your own sometimes is appealing.
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If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
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'YouKu' means what's best and what's cool in Chinese. So, the whole product philosophy really revolves around how to help users, from a massive video database, finds what's best and what's cool.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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Fashion anticipates.
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My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.
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I'm not graceful.
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I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.
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That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ideas, and at the same time it's a little hard because seventy percent of the time or even higher I'm not going to get those roles.
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I don't think the economy telegraphs very clearly where it's going.
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Small Faces were really a soul band as far as we were concerned. That's what we listened to; that's what we played, you know? We were pretty much based on Booker T. and the M.G.'s.
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My idea of a fine wine was one that merely stained your teeth without stripping the enamel.
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I try to stay as naive as possible so I'm not as aware as much of the risks.
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The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone is, especially with Woody Allen who is very much into body language and body movement.
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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
