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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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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You give the money where you want it.
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To have a second movie that you're proud of and that actually turned out the way you wanted, shot by shot, I realize I'm probably going to be able to do this for a little while for my living.
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My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud; it used to drive them up the wall. My father died, and that was a tragedy for everybody, but suddenly I didn't have anybody to stop me from doing what I wanted to do.
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Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature.
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I'm an athlete. I'm strong. I'm tough. And that's how women should be. That's how they should be built.
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Logistics is the ball and chain of armored warfare.
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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.
