George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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We kind of like the new Outkast.
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I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
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Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.
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The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.
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When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
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I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
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I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.
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Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.
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I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.
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When you are hoping for a call or want something different, I think you lose your edge.
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I know what it's like to be a model and go to castings where some people like what they see and others look at you with distaste.
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We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby.
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Try everything with an open heart, looking to fall in love.
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Any team can have a bad century.
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That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.
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For me, my training is a key part of my work as so often my life has depended on being able to move fast and haul myself up and out of something fast!
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To follow implies not only the denying of one's own clarity, investigation, integrity and honesty, but it also implies that your motive in following is reward. Truth is not a reward.
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Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.
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I come from a family of pacifists, so it's not like I was going to join the war. Sweden is not like the States or England where you might get sent to Afghanistan next month.
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The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.
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War does not decide who is right but who is left.
