George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
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I know there are a lot of people out there who have the best intentions but not the voice, so it's about people like me to give them a voice and hear their ideas.
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You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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My mum's really short so she always wears really tall heels, and I used to steal them and now it's just a part of my everyday life.
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If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
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I was a normal American nerd.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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Proceed to not smoke weed around the seed.
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Being at boarding school in the pre-internet era, especially a boarding school tucked away in the Oxfordshire countryside, was like being in a cocoon. You had your own life; world events happened elsewhere.
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I valued the biblical foundation I got at Biola. I was able to take classes that strengthened my faith and helped me to better understand what I believe and how to, in a practical way, apply my faith in real-world situations.
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Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating.
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Who except God can give you peace? Has the world ever been able to satisfy the heart?
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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
