George Bernard Shaw Quotes
What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.
Quotes to Explore
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We must continue building in all corners of the Land of Israel, with determination and without being confused.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.
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Homecourt is everything in the NBA.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.
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Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.
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Speaking in broken Telugu is one thing, and dubbing is another.
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In many countries in the Middle East - and this is changing in the wake of the Arab Spring - but for a long time, censorship of books and film was a very big deal. There were books you couldn't buy; things with political content would be censored, but there were some genres of books and film that the censors just didn't understand.
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Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.
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The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today.
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I remember where I was when I first heard 'Boyz N The Hood' – 126th Street and Normandy, South Central, Los Angeles. I remember that I was on my porch. What they described in that song was so vivid and so clear to me because it was the kind of life I was used to witnessing and partly experiencing in my neighborhood.
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I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.
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In a world that contains tragedies, we must realize that they’re vastly outnumbered by blessings
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What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.
