George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Even if you can't relate to what I'm singing, I hope you can believe in it and see it as something that it is real.
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The movie business is a big gamble.
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Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.
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We lived in a classless society. We'd spend a summer at Gore Vidal's house in Italy, but we were on and off welfare.
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps. The rest of the world, today and across the centuries, simply doesn't see things in this horribly oversimplified way.
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I don't just whisper it, I say it and I say it: 'The United Nations is an anti-Semitic organization, an anti-Israel organization.'
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Civilisation needs more than the law to hold it together. You see, all mankind are not equally willing to accept as divine justice what is called human law.
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Be natural and use your head.
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I really like Iceland. One of the nicest things about it is that I hardly ever had to reach for my credit card. There's practically nothing there to go shopping for.
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Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would be unthinkable without this representation.
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Only God can move mountains, but faith and prayer can move God.
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All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.
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I had an awful lot of my soul invested in Atari culture.
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I'm not technically proficient enough to attempt all kinds of music.
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I've got my own style on the guitar, sure, and I play rhythm in a certain way, and I use certain inflections. People have said that to me, and I understand it.
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Good manners on a man are like wearing an exquisite suit. They never go out of style.
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See a little village a mile ahead of us with a venerable church on a mound in the middle of it gravely presiding over the surrounding wide parish of corn.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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You can only be loved to the extent that you are known.
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For four years, we didn't do any 'Halloweens,' ... But I believed in it. It's not a genius creation or anything. But whenever Halloween season comes around audiences want something like this.
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My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.
