George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
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I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I grew up playing basketball and baseball. I've always been active because my dad played professional football, so sports and working out have always been a part of my life.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.
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Faith is personal if it's to be real.
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I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.
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Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.
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I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times.
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People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
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Writers are so important.
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I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.
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Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.
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I watched Reagan turn around the country by lowering taxes and controlling spending, and I'm applying the same principles.
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Nature means Necessity.
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I can't wait to work with Peter Capaldi as the next 'Doctor.' I know him from old; he's such a lovely man and will be brilliant in the role. As long as he tones down the Malcolm Tucker swearing.
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What a name – Pyotr Frankis. I wondered who had made it up for him. Pyotr Frankis, Jascha – Slavs all over the place, it would seem. Just like my great-grandmother. I felt for her in my mind about the same way you’d feel for a stray piece of food in your mouth with your tongue, but as usual, I had no sense of her beyond a particularly intense memory.
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I come from a stupid family. My uncle heard that most deaths occurs within ten miles of the house...so he moved.
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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
