George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I never use that word, retire.
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Track and field was very big when I was growing up.
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I cannot either change or do anything bad or good to the Syrian people and Syrian citizens.
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I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at poems, short stories, novels - horrible. At a certain point, I recognized that it was fun to write dialogue that had a degree of lightness and humor.
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
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The underdog winning is the romantic position.
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While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.
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I didn't have many girlfriends in my youth. I was an active young man, jumping from one girl to the next, but never with anyone for more than three or four months.
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I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.
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Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.
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The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.
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When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.
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Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.
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I love stories about two people who are doing illegal things, who we really enjoy watching despite the fact that we know they are doomed in some way.
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Brussels sprouts are really quite versatile.
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My mom took me to a Dolly Parton concert when I was 3.
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Oh God, I'm going to get in trouble for saying this, but I grew up falling asleep in church because I was tired from watching horror movies late at night.
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You can stand on a stage in New York City and make very strong statements, but now everyone has to be held accountable equally.
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I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.
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I will be doing a film called Whispers, for Disney. It's about elephants, and doesn't have any people in it. It will be a live action film - I don't know how much I can say about it, since I still don't know too much about it.
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Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.
