George Bernard Shaw Quotes
I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me hated as Shakespeare is hated. My plays were not designed as instruments of torture. All the schools that lust after them get this answer, and will never get any other.
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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I do suspect that this world is hell.
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I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
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Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
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Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.
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Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges in attacks in 2009 and 2010, is often cited as the most dramatic use of a cyber weapon.
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.
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People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
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I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair.
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I never had planned for my life and my career.
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Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.
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Doing 'Kingsman' is such hard work. It's so physical and demanding.
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Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.
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You make a movie with some people, you become friends over the process of making this movie and then... you go your own way.
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I think good things happen to good people.
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When I was growing up, I never heard the word 'racism.' It was only in Paris I encountered that.
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'The Tin Drum' is one of my favourite books of all time - I've probably got 12 or 15 copies with different covers, different translations - but it's also just about my favourite film.
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The tea partiers are a great addition. The tea partiers have invigorated a base that has been dormant for a long period of time. We're going to have a broad array of different views in our Republican conference, and I think it might be more interesting than any I've been in in a long time.
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I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties.
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I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me hated as Shakespeare is hated. My plays were not designed as instruments of torture. All the schools that lust after them get this answer, and will never get any other.
