George Bernard Shaw Quotes
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
Quotes to Explore
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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I would love to do some theater.
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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
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It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.
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I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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There is a natural progression to 'Lost,' and as the story goes forward, it's going to change. It's not a static story. The franchise of 'Lost' is not characters sitting on a beach.
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I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.
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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.
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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
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So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write.
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Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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I'm not a negative person.
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I'm funny at home too, but not deliberately. My wife is usually laughing at me rather than with me.
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We have to learn to face our fears and push ourselves. If you're living on earth and you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room. When you push past the fear and realize that what you feared was not a big deal, you gain more confidence.
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I believe I belong to the last literary generation, the last generation, that is, for whom books are a religion.
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I think there's a moral imperative when you're writing fictional heroes to give characters who somehow give us something to aspire to as opposed to dragging them down to our level.
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I will say without reservations that from my point of view there can be no abstractions. Any shape or area that has not the pulsating concreteness of real flesh and bones, its vulnerability to pleasure or pain is nothing at all. Any picture that does not provide the environment in which the breath of life can be drawn does not interest me.
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We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
