George Bernard Shaw Quotes
We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend it.
Quotes to Explore
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I love Coco de Mer.
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The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
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When I watch Rumble Johnson, he's a bully. He bullies guys. He makes them go backward, and he traps them. I'm not going to allow that. If he tries to bully me, I'll stand right in front of him, and if he hits me, I'll hit him right back. And then we'll see how the bully handles it when nobody is going to run away from him.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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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.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
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I come from a background where money has never been an issue.
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There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
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My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
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If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person.
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It's about finding unique, one-of-a-kind films that I would want to see myself. I think 'Party Monster' is one of those.
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The business breeds such a deep insecurity. It's the nature of the beast, and there is nothing you can do to get away from that.
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I've always had very catholic tastes.
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It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.
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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
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The 'harmonious world' theory .. will help dispel doubts in the international community about China's continued development and refute the absurd 'China threat theory'.
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Thank goodness I started getting movie roles and then television shows came along. So I was very fortunate to be able to do all three and I like all of them.
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Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
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We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend it.
