George Bernard Shaw Quotes
I make no vows. I take my chance. … It means that I fear certainty as you fear uncertainty. It means that nothing is certain but uncertainty. If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.
Quotes to Explore
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the worst model I've heard of in my life. It's just idiotic. Why wouldn't you just wait for the good ones?
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I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
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I always like to sing along to some depressing, angry Morrissey.
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I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
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I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
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I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours.
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Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
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We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
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The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.
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So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.
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Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun to apply.
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Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
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Successful economies in the modern world are not sheepish about the power and responsibility of the state.
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Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.
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In the treatment of the child the world foreshadows its own future and faith. All words and all thinking lead to the child, - to that vast immortality and wide sweep of infinite possibility which the child represents.
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I make no vows. I take my chance. … It means that I fear certainty as you fear uncertainty. It means that nothing is certain but uncertainty. If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.
