George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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I like to connect with people and suss them out. There's no better way than seeing how they react if you just bear into them.
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I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O'Malley, you couldn't even mention Mr. Rickey's name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known.
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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
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I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
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Life is just so much fun and so filled with humor.
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I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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I think that we have to do our job well, investigate thoroughly and then describe very honestly what we see to the Security Council. And some of the things might please people there and other things may not please the people.
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If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.
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I feel bad that I'm the one always blamed for the failure of the space business - even though there are problems with government policy toward the space business.
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The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.
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I always knew I wanted to work in entertainment, but I actually really wanted to be a singer more than an actress.
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I'm just concerned that if I get older, people aren't going to enjoy me as much as when I was younger, because I had a great voice for a little girl, but I mean, my voice can't get any bigger when I'm older.
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I was the kid who was drawing on tables or removing the legs of furniture.
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It is the world's limitations and the myths that we internalize about ourselves that pushes us to diminish our power and ignore it.
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I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural.
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Writing a song is a long road. Or it can be.
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After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.