George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but with music videos, they're like this short little stab.
Watkin Tudor Jones
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
Imelda Staunton
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
Sam Shepard
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I am the worlds laziest writer.
Oscar Peterson
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Imagine Him smiling down on you right now. Embrace His love. Remember, you are His most prized possession, the apple of His eye!
Victoria Osteen
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People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.
Mae Whitman
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I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.
Zaha Hadid
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Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.
Uta Hagen
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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch Spinoza
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I have a few homes, and Los Angeles is certainly one of them.
Zubin Mehta
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With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.
Walter Dean Myers
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Despite the well-documented effects of anger, fear, and anxiety on the ability to reason, many programs continue to ignore the need to engage the safety system of the brain before trying to promote new ways of thinking. The last things that should be cut from school schedules are chorus, physical education, recess, and anything else involving movement, play, and joyful engagement. When children are oppositional, defensive, numbed out, or enraged, it’s also important to recognize that such “bad behavior” may repeat action patterns that were established to survive serious threats, even if they are intensely upsetting or off-putting.
Bessel van der Kolk
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Life isn't so complicated for children. They have more time to think about the really important things. That's why I occasionally moralise in my children's books in a way I wouldn't dare when writing for adults.
Nina Bawden
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
Halldor Laxness
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Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges, government, politics, and before the law. There must be no dual standards of justice, no dual rights, privileges, duties, or responsibilities of citizenship. No dual forms of freedom.
A. Philip Randolph
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Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
George Bernard Shaw
