George Bernard Shaw Quotes
I like to quote myself frequently and often, it makes me sound much more intelligent than I actually am.
Quotes to Explore
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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There is no substitute for jamming and getting to know each other on the road.
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I could not disobey the will of the Catalan parliament.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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Even in real life, sometimes you find that person you click with that you get irritated by every other person in the world but you can be around this person every day and you'd be fine with it.
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It's OK to turn down stuff that isn't really interesting and spend the summer with my family.
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Remember that cosmic fact and mental myth cannot occupy the same place at the same time, any more than two hands can occupy the same glove. So choose what is truly right for you.
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There's nothing better than achieving your goals, whatever they might be.
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Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
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It is said that Obama speaks 'professorially,' a fact that understates the quickness and agility of his mind.
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I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close to SF ... No other form of fiction has the vocabulary of ideas and images to deal with the present, let alone the future.
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I went to Disney World for the first time, and I got an ice cream cone. The kid at the booth recognized me and started tweeting... It was the first time in my life someone handed me ice cream for acting.
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You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.
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This medal goes to show that you don't always have to have the best facilities, the best organisation, the best of everything to achieve.
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Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.
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It's funny how things change slowly, until the day we realize they've changed completely.
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We're seeing the development of tactics in Iraq, such as suicide bombing. Insurgents have been driving cars with explosives into hotels and office buildings. The recruitment may be even more prolific outside Iraq.
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The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are no independent doctors' offices or neighborhood clinics, so people have to go to the hospital for every health care need.
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I still don't know what Episcopalian means.
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Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.
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Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All too often, lives and families can be shattered by it.
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I like to quote myself frequently and often, it makes me sound much more intelligent than I actually am.
