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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The production value of YouTube videos is not there.
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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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You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
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Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not many wise ones.
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Our students wanted to know everything: but only the newest theory seemed to them worth bothering with. Knowing nothing of the intellectual achievements of the past, they kept fresh and intact their enthusiasm for 'the latest thing'. Fashion dominated their interest: they valued ideas not for themselves but for the prestige that they could wring from them.
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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
