George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so much depth to it. And I want people to be able to run away with my melodies and get lost in them and take the lyrics and be able to relate to them.
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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I don't think I've ever not had a dark side. But one of the wonderful reasons why you go into this business is that half your life you live in a fantasy, which is somebody else's life. It's actually a great release because you're not having to deal with the itty-bitty bits of life.
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It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.
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Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.
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What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.
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I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think, in essence, what you're doing is you're raping yourself really.
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The original Spencer Tracy version of 'The Old Man and the Sea' was always terribly flawed because of the over-reliance on voice over, but it's still a beautiful movie.
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But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.
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As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.
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Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what you do out of necessity.
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People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a week.
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I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.
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A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
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Secrets don't stay secrets very long, even when journalists decide to censor themselves.
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I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether or not I am familiar with big words, I am interested in trying to render big ideas in a simple way. I am interested in being understood not admired.
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Heartbreak is life educating us.
