George Bernard Shaw Quotes
The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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If you are in a relationship, it has to be a good one. If it isn't, it's best to just leave it.
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Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.
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I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
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It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
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I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
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Senator Wyden continues to be the Senate's truest champion of an open Internet.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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Winning one league title at Roma, to me, is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid.
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I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.
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I've always been drawn to dark stories. I enjoy reading Flannery O'Connor, Patricia Highsmith, and Margaret Mitchell.
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I personally believe technology can transform the functioning of the judicial system.
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Sometimes if something is entertaining and amusing, people tend to think that it doesn't have the depth of something that's dramatic. I don't think that's true.
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I've always said that I'll know when I've gone too far because I won't be able to sit down and watch it with my father.
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I believe in the ethos of the remix, like Andy Warhol making a painting of a Campbell's soup label.
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It's very intuitive, the way that I approach my work. I only buy something that has a pulse. I may not know how I'm going to use it, but I know it has a pulse and it has multiple readings - if I shift it one way or another, it can be read this way or it can be read that way, but both readings are critical and very much ground the work.
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Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought. . . . life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence.
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We all have a right to know, and if the government has been suppressing information about other life forms, that's the cruelest hoax of all.
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The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.
