George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and lakes and beautiful things to wear and nice people to be with.
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I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.
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I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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Strange, is it not, my brothers, how often in America those great watchwords of human energy - 'Be strong!' 'Know thyself!' 'Hitch your wagon to a star!' - how often these die away into dim whispers when we face these seething millions of black men? And yet do they not belong to them? Are they not their heritage as well as yours?
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.
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I think what was frustrating to see a lot of good people go. You don't picture it, you don't imagine it, don't think it could happen. When it does, you are puzzled.
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Showbiz can be cruel.
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To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
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I was a weird teenager. My mother was actually worried because I didn't have any interest in dating in my teenage years. I had all this desire to pursue my passions like ballet, then sailing, then music, so I didn't have any emptiness to fill.
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'Climb Every Mountain' is a beautiful statement of philosophy. Critics may think 'The Sound of Music' is saccharine, but I think it's profound. The message, that we can't accommodate evil, is just as important today.
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Can Christ be in thou heart and thou not know it? Can one king be dethroned and another crowned in thy soul and thou hear no scuffle?
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I grew up with a computer, and many of my friends were people I met online.
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When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.
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Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and lakes and beautiful things to wear and nice people to be with.
