George Bernard Shaw Quotes
God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.
George Bernard Shaw
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Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character.
Kate Winslet
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My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.
Katha Pollitt
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What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.
Rachel McAdams
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Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
Carl Hiaasen
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If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
Octavia Spencer
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
Irwin Shaw
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This case, involving legal requirements for the content and labeling of meat products such as frankfurters, affords a rare opportunity to explore simultaneously both parts of Bismarck's aphorism that 'No man should see how laws or sausages are made.'
Antonin Scalia
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If I examine the circumstances which inspired me to write – and this is not mere self-indulgence, but a desire for accuracy – I see clearly that the starting point of it all for me was war.
J. M. G. Le Clezio
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If you want to go put on a bathrobe and go walk down the street, excellent. I think it's more about trying to get an individual style than trying to get a uniform look.
Ian Astbury
The Cult
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I heard an Israeli speaking on Palestinian human rights issues, an interesting guy, and he said 'There's no military solution to terrorism. If there were, Israel would be the safest place in the world. But there's no military solution.'
Bradley Whitford
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A more just world is possible. In most of the global issues, and also in so many of the development issues I'm involved in in our region, the young people that I am working with are seizing the tools at their disposal and trying to use them well, for issues far larger than their immediate personal benefit and concerns. That's what gives me hope.
Queen Noor of Jordan
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God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.
George Bernard Shaw
