George Bernard Shaw Quotes
It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.
Quotes to Explore
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Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
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My passion for giving is no different than yours. I give because it's in my heart to give. I give because I was taught to give at a very early age. This is how I developed my passion for giving.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.
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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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My message to business leaders is clear: If you are looking to expand your business and boost the bottom line, there is no better place than Utah to do it.
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My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking on me or anything. When it's good, it's the best thing ever. When it's bad, it's an hour of absolute agony.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.
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You should never reveal your true age.
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Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.
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People think that painting is about colorIt's mostly compositionIt's composition that's the whole thingThe classic image-Two late Tang dishes, one with a flower image,one empty – the empty form goes all the way to heavenIt is the classic form – lighter weight.
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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.
