George Bernard Shaw Quotes
All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.
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So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'
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The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
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I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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One must act in painting as in life, directly.
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'Newsies' is definitely aerobic! The boys have to do a lot more than I do in the show, but for 'King of New York,' the big Act Two tap number, I have to be warmed up or I will hurt myself.
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We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn't a national AIDS organization out there worth squat in my opinion.
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It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth's atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratosphere.
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Every role is a new form of surrender.
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Look up from what you're doing and look around for a minute. See what a beautiful world you're in.
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Intentions count in your actions.
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We have filmmakers who make films with some kind of responsibility and take cinema seriously like Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani, Prakash Jha. But now these people also take stars... Without stars they cannot work.
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All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.
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It is ironic that it doesn't matter how successful I am in any other capacity: ultimately, my parents' marker is 'Do you have a wife?' and 'Do you have children?'
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Foucault is the Cagliostro of our time.
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Experience by itself teaches nothing...Without theory, experience has no meaning. Without theory, one has no questions to ask. Hence without theory there is no learning.
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To those who attack Malala, I say, if you attack one Malala, thousands of Malalas will be born.
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The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
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What are the ideas right now worth betraying? What are the lies we tell ourselves now?
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'Everything off. I want to see you in your horrific potbellied hairy filthy nakedness.'
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I've read the 'Public Enemies' script and, no, it's not 100 percent historically accurate. But it's by far the closest thing to fact Hollywood has attempted, and for that, I am both excited and quietly relieved.
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All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.
