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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It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.
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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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When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.
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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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Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.
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You never know when your last day gig is, and if you spend your life thinking about it, you'll drive yourself nuts. But I try not to foster or exhibit any desperation.
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I grew up pretty poor - not poor compared with people in India or Africa who are really poor, but poor enough so that the worry about money really cast a pall over your life a lot of the time.
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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.
