George Bernard Shaw Quotes
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Quotes to Explore
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I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
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The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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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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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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History is fickle. We know that. The good and bad come around and go around, and go around again. There are recessions and depressions and economic boom and bust.
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What I love to say when people ask me about being a Christian, I always say, 'Christians aren't perfect.' They're probably some of the worst people on the planet. They just know that they need Jesus. That's the only difference.
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Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China - the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.
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The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors.
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I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time.
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When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.
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I am very concerned that federal and state air quality programs do not consider public health in regulating certain classes of industrial air emissions.
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I work out in a studio. Every day, regardless where I am, at least two hours. I need it. I can't cease it.
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Your motivation should be sincere and your life should be of benefit to some people. That is the main thing. Don't care after my death.
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Coldplay songs deliver an amorphous, irrefutable interpretation of how being in love is supposed to feel, and people find themselves wanting that feeling for real. They want men to adore them like Lloyd Dobler would, and they want women to think like Aimee Mann, and they expect all their arguments to sound like Sam Malone and Diane Chambers. They think everything will work out perfectly in the end (just like it did for Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones and Nick Hornby's Rob Fleming), and they don't stop believing because Journey's Steve Perry insists we should never do that.
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Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
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I think the joy of any soap opera is it is always there. You are allowed into this world for a little while and it's safe in that you are watching other people go through some troubles rather than yourself. It's there every night, and there is something special about that sort of terrestrial television experience for a mass audience.
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In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
