George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.

George Bernard Shaw

• Comedy
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• Evening

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• I watch Jay. I watch 'Letterman'. I flip back and forth between 'Conan' and 'Letterman', especially the top of the show for those guys.

  

  Wanda Sykes
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• I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.

  

  Carl Sandburg
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  • Doubt
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• For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
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• It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
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• The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.

  

  Candace Kita
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• It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Death
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• If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Perfect
  • Humility
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• My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Live
  • Man
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• I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • World
  • Great
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• As long as I have a heartbeat, I'm fine. So I just do what I love, and I do it the best that I can. And if it all goes away, I'll just start over.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Long
  • Love
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• In Mexico, audiences want to see a big discussion around a film - what we expect from Hollywood films worldwide is more of an entertaining show. 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' was a road movie and comedy, but it had a very strong political connotation that sparked a discussion in Mexico that is still going on.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Movie
  • Political
  • Strong

• Each album takes two or two-and-a-half years to finish between recording and touring. It's like being with an old boyfriend every single night watching the same things on TV. There is a world out there going on that I'm missing.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • World
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• It is our job, as members of parliament, to legislate with an eye to the long term future, to look over the horizon beyond the next election and ensure that as far as we can what we do today will make Australia a better place, a safer place, for future generations to live in.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Long
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• Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things.

  

  Nate Silver
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• Try to devote the percentage of time for each club that you're going to be using on the golf course. I like to have two or three different clubs that I practice with, not four or five.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Time
  • Different
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• Vida's definitely a beautiful and peaceful girl.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Beautiful
  • Girl
  • Peaceful

• I'm a big fan of Rand Paul; he and I are good friends. I don't agree with him on foreign policy.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Good
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  • Good Friends

• Joining the Bipartisan Policy Center is a natural extension of my efforts to achieve results throughout my tenure in Congress, and it provides an ideal means for developing strategies that can garner the broad support necessary to achieve real solutions to the challenges confronting our nation.

  

  Olympia Snowe
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• The military can buy our diplomats some time.

  

  James Mattis
  • Time
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• My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing.

  

  Gene Hackman
  • Good
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  • Pretty

• One can do a film and not work for six months, but on TV, you have to produce good content every week. It involves a lot of hard work, as one has to fight for ratings every week. But I have always got love from the audiences, be it during 'The Great Laughter Challenge' or 'Comedy Circus.'

  

  Kapil Sharma
  • Work
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  • Challenge

• Inspiration: A miasma originating in the head that pollutes the body and irritates good sense.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Inspiration
  • Sense
  • Pollutes

• I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it's essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if it's a dramatic role, meaning you play it straight.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Comedy
  • Listening
  • Drama

• Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Comedy
  • Sense
  • Evening