George Bernard Shaw Quotes
The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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While hereditary chiefs inhabit the apex of our traditional social systems, it would be a mistake to think they hold all the power. They aren't kings. They aren't dictators. They're answerable to their clans and their matriarchs. All decisions that affect our communities require lengthy, deliberate discussions and careful negotiation.
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I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.
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I've had Botox. It hurts a lot, but I like it.
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Whereas recessive traits require two bad copies of a gene to become noticeable, a dominant trait expresses itself no matter what the other copy does. A benign example of dominance: If you inherit one gene for sticky wet earwax and one gene for dry earwax, the sticky earwax gene wins out every time.
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I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.
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They probably do have an Asian Barbie.
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It's mystifying to me why the House leadership will not allow a straight up-or-down vote on a pay raise. I vote against every pay raise because taxpayers deserve better.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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America is addicted to wars of distraction.
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The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I went down to 112 pounds and realized my brain doesn't work when I'm that thin, so I can't do my job. That's why, when I came out here, I never had that whole Hollywood pressure thing.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
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This experience actually means the very opposite: the largest military power was unable to stop such a sensitive attack and will be unable to rule out such a possibility in the future. Precisely this is the background to the United States' military interventions.
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My family is basically Gypsies - for real.
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My father said that I could always become an actress, but I couldn't go back to college later in life. So I had to first finish my education, and then I could do what I wanted. At the time, I was not pleased, but now, I can't thank him enough. My parents were absolutely right.
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I studied really hard. But Hollywood never appreciated my talent.
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To me, a strong sense of self isn't believing in a lot.
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I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made.
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When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.
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An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
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When taxpayers are subsidizing low wages, people should be aware of that. We're subsidizing an economy. We're not subsidizing people. They are doing a hard day's work. When we're not rewarding work actively, there's something wrong with the system.
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I've never lost a grown-up child, but I have known loss.
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I believe the more successful an actor becomes, the more chances he should take. An actor never stops learning.
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The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.
