George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I went to a lot of schools that would get plays for kids.
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If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.
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You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.
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Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.
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I know a lot of actors who get a part and then they dissect it and they want to change it and they want to add stuff. I'm always amazed and so impressed by actors who do that.
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People work hard.
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There's a fine line between playing through things and sitting out. I was always on the side of, 'I'm going to play through it.' It's probably good at times, bad at times, but for an athlete to always try to be there and play through things, from a teammate's perspective, it speaks volumes. Now that I look back, mentally it makes you tougher.
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I'm very happy to be employed. I always contend that in show business that if you're employed, then you're successful.
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When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.
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Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.
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As U.S. citizens, Puerto Rico has paid their part.
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We all have our own little thing, I think.
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I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
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Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.
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Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?
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And we lost a lot because of that, and I think this is future gymnastics to separate ages. Because kids can do it more than adult. A woman and adult woman can show more than the small kids.
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Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.
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The givers of most of the corruption in Africa are from outside Africa.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
Well, I definitely have an artistic side to me as well. I write, I act, I draw. With that artistic mind I have, a lot of doors have opened for me. I can try to pursue, like - if it's something using my writing skills, maybe a book. Or maybe if it's my drawing skills, some clothing designs.
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You cannot hide; your growth as an artist is not separate from your growth as a human being: it is all visible.
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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.