George Bernard Shaw Quotes
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
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I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
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My mum has lived in Australia for 22 years now, and we have a rocky relationship. But at the same time it's one I want to maintain. I need her to be my mum. The relationship took a lot of rebuilding.
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I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.
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You've got the federal government in every part of our lives, doing things wrong.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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TV's been good to me.
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When you're CEO, you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.
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Take chances, find your voice in fashion, and find what you like, and find what makes you feel good, and do that.
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In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.
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Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their honey-moon in Eden, but had their first little one among the thorns and thistles of the wilderness. It is still the beginning of the home epic - the gradual conquest or irremediable loss of that complete union which make the advancing years a climax, and age the harvest of sweet memories in common.
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Can the brain understand the brain? Can it understand the mind? Is it a giant computer, or some other kind of giant machine, or something more?
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America has a long history of pride in the military uniform, and the Army has a 362-page directive on proper uniform wear. Included are guidelines that accommodate freedom of religion by outlining what religious attire or jewelry can be worn with the uniform.
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One demonstration of extremists, any more than a Ku Klux Klan demonstration in the United States, is not necessarily reflective of what the rest of the country feels.
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What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
