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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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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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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Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave.
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I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.
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Men often act knowingly against their interest.
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Don't be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found. It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
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We are all one. We're not as separate as we oftentimes think.
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In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the past.
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Reading the script for 'Jennifer's Body,' I just thought that here was a script that really exposes the horror between girls and friendships. I always sort of approached the film with that in mind first, and then thought about the crazy ways that that horror would express itself.
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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
