George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
Quotes to Explore
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I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
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I just want to be the best. I haven't been in an all-out war. That doesn't mean I'm not the best.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theater because every day it's a new script, which really doesn't have a beginning, middle or end like a play or a movie script. So you have to be on your toes and bring it every day. And you have to be spontaneous, which is really how I like to work.
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I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.
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Music is about the performance.
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The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.
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Back in the '70s - I remember the '70s: we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience.
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I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.
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I believe in that gladiatorial mind-set. I love it.
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Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.
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A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.
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The 'Police Academy' stuff was all hyper-slapsticky.
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In drear-nighted December,Too happy, happy tree,Thy branches ne'er rememberTheir green felicity.
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To me, age doesn't make a difference in terms of how playful or fun life can be.
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You can't start out at 20 in whatever your profession is and say, "I want to win an Olympic medal," or "I want to become president," or "I want to win the Pulitzer Prize." If you love what you're doing, it's sort of a nice thing that happens toward the end of your career, or in the middle of your career. It is not the reason you were doing it. The reason you were doing it is because every day you wake up in the morning and you can't wait to learn something new.
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You want to be greedy when others are fearful. You want to be fearful when others are greedy. It's that simple. … They're pretty fearful. In fact, in my adult lifetime, I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful economically as they are right now.
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A lot of people think that kids say the darnedest things. But so would you if you had no education. You'd just be like, I am bike cheese. Because you wouldn't know what words were.
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Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
