George Bernard Shaw Quotes
A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.
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I know a lot about Judy Garland. She was born in 1922, and I think she died in '69. When I was little, like, when I was 8, I knew all of her husbands' names.
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I think as an actor you're used to having to travel, so wherever the work, is you're willing to go.
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I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.
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The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
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Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
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Your heart can only take you so far - sometimes the physical body tells you otherwise.
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I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.
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My witness is the empty sky.
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Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.
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In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
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You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.
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Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.
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I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world.
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Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.
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If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war.
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Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.
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Being a celebrity can be very intoxicating and very addicting. And I've always been afraid of that, because I've grown up post-almost every child star out there who has gone wayward.
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There's lots of things that can't make it in the world that are worth making. There are lots of great artists who never make it, there are lots of great writers who don't get published - is it still worthwhile? Aren't we glad people are still doing it?
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North Korea is a problem, not only because of its fast advancing nuclear and missile program but also because of the sorry state of the country’s economy and its abysmal human rights record. It is a problem for us outsiders, but it is an even greater problem for the North Korean people themselves. As people are fond of saying in such situations that "something has to be done." But what exactly?
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I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.
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The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.
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I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic conservative family. It took me a while to come out to myself, and not long after that, I came out to them. I think that it really couldn't have been a better experience. They were all immediately supportive.
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History balances the frustration of 'how far we have to go' with the satisfaction of 'how far we have come.' It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time.
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A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.
