George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I adored my mom. I thought she was the best. I loved her very much.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.
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I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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I understand that the tendency of foreign countries in recent years has been to establish particularly close relations with one or two others among all the countries which have general relations. In time of peace, they make secret treaties in advance, and in wartime, they aid one another with military provisions and armaments.
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I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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My original name was Juaquin, and my cousin couldn't pronounce my name right. So he'd just be saying 'Waka! Waka!' So when I was younger, I used to always laugh, then my man Gucci gave me the rest of the name.
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After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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Tricking your brain into thinking you are getting something sweet plays dirty tricks on your metabolism.
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I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.
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I've never directed anything before 'Mad Men,' so I don't feel I have any advice for the other directors.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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I need to give affection and love, because without that, I wither. I need to give that love to someone. Without that, I'm rudderless.
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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
