George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.
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I don't have mom issues or dad issues. I think I have found peace about many things in my past. I have forgiven and asked to be forgiven.
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It was only after university that I said to myself that I had to take the risk and have a serious go at acting. It's such a bizarre profession, because you have to be totally tough to deal with all those times when you're being turned down, and then really soft in order to access your character's emotions.
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I've done my coaching badges, I've got my Pro Licence, but I enjoy what I'm doing now. I'm also the elite performance director of the Welsh FA. The main thing for me was always Liverpool Football Club and my country, Wales - and I'm lucky enough to still be involved with both of them.
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What joy would I get from putting the wrong person behind bars?
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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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Finney is about the best writer of time travel stories ever, and I adore time travel stories - have to make a time travel game someday!
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Every now and then, when I think about it, I think, 'What would I even talk about onstage?' It's never been, 'I wonder if I'm funny. I wonder if I can come up with jokes.' It's more, 'What would it be like without the leather suit and the anger?'
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I am very sorry to say that I rejoiced when I once more perceived the towers of Windsor behind me.
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You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.
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We all want what every girl wants: to look fabulous while we're out there ruling the world.
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It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.
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Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are wasted to produce the world’s amusements. It is for this reason that 'amusements' are not so amusing.
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Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed. (XIV, Translated by W. H. S. Jones. LCL 148, Pages 296-297)
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By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
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The passage he was to read was from Revelations - or Obfuscations, as he preferred to call them. Reading it over on the train from Cambridge, he had felt a strange desire to build a time machine so that he could take the author a copy of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason.
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I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange.
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I'm sort of a straight shooter.
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I like the minute when I can get off the stage and go home, and I know I've done a good job.
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There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he plays for the long ball too much.' You bet I do. Hit 'em out. Then I got no worry about somebody lousing up a bunt, I got no worry about the hit and run - and that's really overrated - I got no worry about base-running errors. And I can't screw it up myself.
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It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.
