George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I have an obsession with fashion - it's another form of expression for me - and I have a growing collection of vintage clothes and jewelry. Being able to play dress-up for my career has been a gift.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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I know that, as a comedian, I've made great strides because I've worked as hard as a person can work at being at least wildly amusing.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
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It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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I find the whole concept of women screaming at me so odd. It's very flattering, but I don't think I will ever consider myself to be a sex symbol.
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It's possible to look really cute and still be comfortable. You don't have to kill your feet to have a fashionable look.
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I know a lot of single people who are not miserable as society tells them they're supposed to be.
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As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program.
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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
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We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.
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With the way that the times are, we're all looking for a little fantasy... Fantasy is such an important part of my fashion...
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I remember somebody came in with Chicago Transit Authority, and we listened to it one time.
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There is nothing that's off the table. I have my positions and I'll articulate them. But nothing's off the table.
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An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.
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Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
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Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
