George Bernard Shaw Quotes
You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.
Quotes to Explore
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We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.
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We've got our football where no one wears anything and the guys are in little shorts and they beat the crap out of each other, and they can catch it and they can kick it, and it's the only place it's played in the world.
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.
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I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing.
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I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.
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Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
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I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
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Only the dead can be forgiven; But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.
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'To a right-winger, unions are awful. Why do right-wingers hate unions? Because collective bargaining is the power that a worker has against the corporation. Right-wingers hate that.'
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Through Twitter, I've got a writing career and a directing career, as well as hundreds of other beneficial things that have happened to me. I love it.
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With all the stuff that's going on in the world - after I watch the news, read the news, and listen to my podcasts, at the end of the day, am I really going to watch an episode of murder and time travel?
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What I love about New York is that everyone is in their own world. It's the opposite of L.A. - there, everyone is looking outside of themselves to see who's next to them. What's great about New York is that you get to be anonymous.
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You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.
