George Bernard Shaw Quotes
I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.
Quotes to Explore
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
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Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.
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People always ask me if I'm nervous about the intense sci-fi fans. To me that doesn't seem weird or scary. I get really intense about my favorite sci-fi shows, my favorite shows in general.
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Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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I don't mind playing spoiler.
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My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.
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My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.
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My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences and elevate them to universal experiences, so that I wasn't writing songs about living on a tour bus or being on a TV set for the first time.
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I enjoy the challenge of trying to say things beautifully. The message is secondary in that sense. Obviously, I have something that I want to say that's very, very important to me – but the process of actually crafting it is essential.
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They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.
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When I first came in the business, I had a couple of close calls on planes going to London for shows. There was one time where the plane had to fly around until a storm ended, and then we started having a question about fuel, so we had to go through the storm. It was the worst thing that ever happened in my life. That really messed me up.
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We travel a lot and don't get enough time to spend with our family, and so we have to take our pictures, videos, also bother about things like which are the HD quality phones. So I'm very much a part of these typical things.
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The only thing I can cook is Welsh rarebit.
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Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.
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Sometimes you have to put a wrench in the gears to get people to listen.
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I was raised looking at women who were strong, and they weren't really into playing race cards or playing gender cards. I didn't grow up around women who were like, 'Well, let the boys do that, and let the girls do that.' I didn't really see that in my house.
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In my nothing, you were everything, to me.
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You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.
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I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.
