George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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It's always interesting to play a character that obviously has a secret.
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Righteousness exalts a nation, and sin brings reproach.
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Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences.
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When you grow up without it, you want to have it. It's funny, in America some people say, 'Why do you want to make money so much?' And I say, 'Well, I guess you didn't starve as a kid.'
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I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.
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As most actors/actresses, I don't like to watch my own movies, either, and I never look at the dailys while filming.
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To assume that someone's views are invariably influenced or shaped by his or her partner is lazy. It is an intellectual crutch we grope for when we do not have an effective counter to someone's argument.
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I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.
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I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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With aging, you earn the right to be loyal to yourself.
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I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that's what keeps you alive. That's what keeps you from getting stale.
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The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent. When God wants to take charge of the world, he doesn't send in the tanks. He sends in the poor and the meek.
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The only two characters I can play convincingly are myself and a dumber and sweeter version of myself.
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I would never try to invalidate someone's opinion of something or the feelings something makes them feel.
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Anything I sing is supposed to be genuine. It's not supposed to be make-believe or I'm making something for the crowd to jump or to hold up their hands.
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
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Anyone who is afraid to lose isn't ready to win.
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In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
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No players want to hear their own fans booing the players, booing the team, but football is a hard game, and you can't win everything.
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I mean, if you pause over what it means at the age of 76 that Eleanor Roosevelt wrote, the happiest single day of her life was the day she made the first team at field hockey. Field hockey is a team sport. Field hockey is a knockabout - I mean, picture Allenswood, the swamps of north London. It's a messy sport. So she really enjoyed playing this rough-and-tumble sport in the mud of Allenswood, a team sport. And she was very competitive. And she loved being competitive, and she loved to win. And that, I think, was all of the things that Allenswood enabled.
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The way you wield your power is about using it to afford you opportunities that you wouldn't otherwise have. So I'm very creatively ambitious, and I just hope people notice it; that's all I want.
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In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.
