George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.
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I'm still awaiting the idea of drawing comics for a living being a reality. I feel like I've been dodging work for 20 years, and at some point, I'll have to get a real job.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
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I grew up pretty much with nothing.
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I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.
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When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.
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We would like to make it quite clear that we are not migrants into the U.K. But we are the citizens of a state that belongs to the European Union who can take jobs anywhere freely within the European Union.
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I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.
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The young man who's had the Guggenheim fortune behind him all his life - he can hire all the authorities on the subject to teach him how to do a monologue, but he's never going to have the right stuff to pull it off. If he doesn't walk out onstage needing to walk out there, he doesn't have a dream of doing well.
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You don't play villains like they are villains. You play them like you know exactly where they are coming from. Which hopefully you do.
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Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.
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There are bugs and there are the pigeons and other predators, but you shouldn't be afraid of them, because this is how nature works.
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Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.
