George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.George Bernard Shaw
Quotes to Explore
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
Yaya Toure -
Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.
Gary Paulsen -
But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
Walter Salles -
Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
Pam Brown -
Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.
Laura Moser -
I've always been very in tune to my voice and to other people's voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects - I collected them like stamps.
Lake Bell
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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
Patrice Leconte -
As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
Federico Garcia Lorca -
Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms.
Vaclav Klaus -
Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do.
Adam Green -
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
J. B. Priestley -
I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
Candy Crowley -
E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
J. G. Ballard -
If we continue to fight the National Rifle Association on their home court, which is the legislative front, I think we'll continue to be frustrated. But when you have an ability to go directly to the public, that's a completely different field of engagement, and I think the NRA is not adept at that kind of engagement.
Gavin Newsom -
A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
Dakota Johnson -
I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
Felix Baumgartner -
One of the trickiest things about 'Game of Thrones' is just seeding those first couple of episodes with that basic information that people need to know, both about the world and the ground rules of the world, and the relationships between the characters, as far as who means what to whom and why.
D. B. Weiss
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I was up playing violin at seven and translating that information to play guitar, piano at eight.
Ronnie Milsap -
People tell me I'm very ambitious right now. But I just have a lot of stories in my head, and why can't I do them all?
Allison Schroeder -
The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.
F. Murray Abraham -
...his mother was very old, and his father was no longer alive - hence there cannot be another Kapil Dev!
Kapil Dev -
And all the time - such is the tragic comedy of our situation - we continue to clamor for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.
C. S. Lewis -
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
George Bernard Shaw