George Bernard Shaw Quotes

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

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• I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.

  

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• I'm not the most technical producer, so the weird mixes and blown-out sound happen naturally.

  

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• Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.

  

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• I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.

  

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• Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.

  

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• If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.

  

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• It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.

  

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• There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

  

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• Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.

  

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• Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.

  

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• Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.

  

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• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

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• The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

  

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• I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.

  

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• Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.

  

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• There are a lot of magazines that are still sort of... that only cater to a certain demographic and only put certain people on their covers.

  

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• Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

  

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• I love that song 'I Could Have Danced All Night' from 'My Fair Lady' so much. I love that song because watching it as a kid, it was such an unbridled expression of joy.

  

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• I'm a great believer in poetry out of the classroom, in public places, on subways, trains, on cocktail napkins. I'd rather have my poems on the subway than around the seminar table at an MFA program.

  

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• My brother was a great audience, and if he liked the picture, he would laugh and laugh and laugh, and he would want to keep the picture. Making people laugh with an image I had created... what power that was!

  

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• I'm a really lucky guy, I have a good wardrobe of suits and things, and I have a wife that gives me a direction if I'm doing something wrong. I live a great life and I do what I love, which is wonderful.

  

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• All great truths begin as blasphemies.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
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