George Bernard Shaw Quotes
You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
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I'm very heterosexual, so dating women is something I'm not ashamed of. But my love life is not as exciting as it is reported to be.
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The physicality of any character is always split up into fast, slow, high energy, low energy, what kind of personality he has. So that's where the physicality comes in. And flying through the air is just something you have to do if they ask you.
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It's one of the greatest festivals in the world. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest is the best all-around... It's an honor to be closing it.
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I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.
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It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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I was talking to Marylanders... What we were hearing, everywhere, was an overwhelming sense of frustration. People felt a huge disconnect between Annapolis and the rest of Maryland.
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I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.
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No two wars are identical.
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The thing about Iceland is that we are trapped there anyway, all of us. We have been trapped there for thousands of years.
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Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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There are few restrictions on your life with asthma, as long as you take care of yourself.
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Prior to 2001, hardly any company in North America or Europe would buy from India.
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I'm, like, everybody's friend. I'm one of those dudes. I can be friends with anybody. Any race of person, any personality, I can kind of deal with them. I accept different types of people.
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If I've inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it's really backfired very badly on me.
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I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature's ability to be anything more than perfectly bound blog posts or transcribed sitcoms.
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Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public's money, but very few of those who had run those companies have been punished for their failures. Yes, the top managers of those companies have lost their jobs - but with a fat pension and mostly with a handsome severance payment.
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There was a small point in my life in law school, right before I moved to Newark, when I didn't know what I wanted to do, and I felt so lost.
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Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?
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When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house where I was staying, that let me hear what was being said by the servent girls in the kitchen.
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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
