George Bernard Shaw Quotes

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

George Bernard Shaw

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• You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.

  

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• I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.

  

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• The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.

  

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• There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.

  

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• I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.

  

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• I love to make a one-pot meal - think stir-fry but in the French Fricassee. I start with what takes the longest to roast and then add vegetables, fresh herbs, and starch until the meal is complete in one shot.

  

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• You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.

  

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• They say TV has a tendency to diminish actors, and I think that's probably true in the long run - it wears on 'em like bad dental work - but Cheech doesn't show any of the signs of being damaged that way. And as a man, he's fantastic.

  

  Sam Shepard
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• Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.

  

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• Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.

  

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• It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

  

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• Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.

  

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• I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.

  

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• Men are every bit as gendered as women.

  

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• The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.

  

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• I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

  

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• You look at today, it's a different situation. You have a game that has been transformed into a game where almost every shot is either an outside shot - a three-point shot - or a dunk.

  

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• September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.

  

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• Now we're here in 2009. My boys are 16 and 18, one's going to USC film school, and the other seems to be a natural comedian. So now I have to go back into show business as a senior comedian. So I hope to get Walter Brennan-type roles, Gabby Hayes kind of stuff, be the old-timer. We'll see what happens.

  

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• Truth then seems to me, in the proper import of the word, to signify nothing but the joining or separating of Signs, as the Things signified by them do agree or disagree one with another. The joining or separating of signs here meant, is what by another name we call proposition. So that truth properly belongs only to propositions: whereof there are two sorts, viz. mental and verbal; as there are two sorts of signs commonly made use of, viz. ideas and words.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
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• The strong man is strongest when alone.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
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• From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
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• A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Man
  • Nasty
  • Thinks