George Bernard Shaw Quotes
No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.
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When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.
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They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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I don't know; it's hard for me to understand people that want to get out there and protest on the first day we elect a new guy.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.
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Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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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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As much as I love heavy riffs, I like The Eagles, Neil Young, Elton John, Crowded House.
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And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across.
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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
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If you stand up for women, then don't bash me.
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I don't know how to put it, but I don't have many friends. All my friends circle was in Madras, and I lost touch with them. But I'm friends with all my directors, and they are very important for me.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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Lesbians are likely to be drawn to stand-up, if only because it's cheaper to produce and therefore more accessible for women. But the very form of stand-up is masculine.
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Mexico doesn't deserve what has happened to us. A democratic change is urgent, a change that will permit us to stop being a loser country.
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When you're writing something to direct, you just write exactly what you're going to do. You don't have to write it in a way for other people to understand or interpret.
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Religiosity is suffocating in Pakistan. It invariably stokes the fire in driving society to religious extremism.
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Ne male loquare absenti amico.
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My claim is that we do not have a market economy, but a capitalist economy.
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It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.
