George Bernard Shaw Quotes
It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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Religion is such an important part of so many people's lives, and I don't understand it at all.
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Green, red, and mixed shades of haemins are known. If magnesium is replaced by iron in chlorophyll, green haemins are obtained. Their colour is due to a strong band in the red which is already recognized in chlorophyll.
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I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
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The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.
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I've lost a lot of teeth and square yards of hide. But I've never lost my self-respect, and I've kept what I find in few men of my age - my enthusiasm.
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The truth is that at age 19, I was a teenage mother living alone with my daughter in a trailer and struggling to keep us afloat on my way to a divorce. And I knew then that I was going to have to work my way up and out of that life if I was going to give my daughter a better life and a better future, and that's what I've done.
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I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.
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I think my grandmother saw my potential first. When I was young, I told her, 'I think I should get a job.' She said, 'No, just keep boxing.'
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I was falsely arrested twice, slandered and defamed.
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Taste is the feminine of genius.
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In many ways, everything about my upbringing decreed that I wouldn't write a memoir because in the world where I grew up, in Chicago in the Fifties and Sixties, one key way of protesting ourselves - 'we' meaning black people - against racism, against its stereotypes and its insults, was to curate and narrate very carefully the story of the people.
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Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.
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It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.
