George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.

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All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.
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I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
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I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.
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The laptop computer is a workhorse. The tablet is just a display.
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The Longs event was the first LPGA event that I played in 8 years ago.
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In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
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It could get saturated or monotonous if I would do the same characters again and again. That is why, to save myself from that feeling, I take time out to choose roles that excite me.
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Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
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I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.
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I try to do as many different roles as the system will allow me. That's the benefit of not being in a giant blockbuster where you're the lead and you get typecast in that kind of role. I am able to slip in or out of a lot of different parts.
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I would say issues around human rights - either you're going to take a hard stance, or you're not. You can't borrow money from China the way the U.S. has done and then turn around and say, 'But you've got a human-rights problem.' You can't be half pregnant.
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When I see someone for the first time in a while, and they ask, 'How have you been?' or 'What have you been up to?', it's politeness but a bit of a conversation stopper.
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Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.
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The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.
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I think I am a complete player. I can play well on all the surfaces. For me, the clay might be easiest, but I am not a specialist on clay.
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To me, a strong sense of self isn't believing in a lot.
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I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers.
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You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.
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Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.
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I love doing television.
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Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.