George Bernard Shaw Quotes
The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.
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Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.
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We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.
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I'm very soulful. I grew up singing in church. When I sing a song, I like to feel what I'm singing.
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Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.
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I suppose I was a frustrated artist. I like fitting things together, and there are plenty of different ways to do that with real estate.
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Keratin can be very colorful, as we see in birds. We'd expect dinosaurs to be very colorful because they basically invented the characteristics we see in birds.
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In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.
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I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.
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Congress is my ideological home; I come from a Nehruvian family.
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I'm not interested in disposable music.
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I tend not to trust people who live in very tidy houses. I know that on the surface there is nothing wrong with a person being well-ordered and disciplined. Nothing, except that it leaves the impression of that person having lived in the confines of a stark institution which, although he or she has long since left, remains within.
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There's a nastiness to conversations about U.S. education reform, which are characterized by the kind of stark taking-of-sides that's usually reserved for debates over guns or abortion rights.
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I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.
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I'm not saying that men make better fathers than women do mothers.
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Sadness is so ungrateful.
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A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus.
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Is He going to help Himself to your life, or are you taken up with your conception of what you are going to do? God is responsible for our lives, and the one great keynote is reckless reliance upon Him.
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The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning: The non-suicide is a little traveling suck of care, sucking care with him from the past and being sucked toward care in the future. His breath is high in his chest. The ex-suicide opens his front door, sits down on the steps, and laughs. Since he has the option of being dead, he has nothing to lose by being alive. It is good to be alive. He goes to work because he doesn't have to.
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Real slow hits from the bong...
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The day I need a television puppet or clown to tell my children what's right and what's wrong, I'll bow out as a mother.
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While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man cherishes generous treatment.
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Adam Lambert is one of my best friends. I've known him since he was an understudy in 'Wicked.' Such a doll.
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The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.
