George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.
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I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.
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In France and other European countries, film stars are more celebrated. In Germany, if we are good at what we do, we are respected but not acclaimed. And, of course, we are not paid like Americans are.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.
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I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson Welles, jazz, all that stuff. Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.
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People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.
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Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.
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My life is studded with a series of coincidences.
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With social media, people share mostly their best moments. Don't feel like you're not doing enough when you see a mom posting about making applesauce after you bought it. Ha ha! It's fine! Just for raising a little human being, you should be commended.
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The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
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Frenemies are worse than enemies, and it's not just in the workplace.
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The Internet is part of our evolution. The mystics used to say, 'We can travel across the planet in a thought.' Now we really can. We can be connected with a million people at a time.
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I've tried to quit writing several times, but I enjoy it too much.
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We don't have to sit by while Trump uses his enormous global platform to undermine our national security. We would love to be able to actually force Twitter's hand to live up to its rules, explicitly forbidding hate speech and encouraging violence.
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America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.
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We ought not to desire the impossible.
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Some of the most powerful times are when we're quiet.
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If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.
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I feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently.
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I don't really worry what outside groups who score votes think. My job is to represent the people.
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Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.
