George Bernard Shaw Quotes
When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.
Quotes to Explore
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.
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If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
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When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.
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I connect with people on a daily basis.
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Anybody that wants to walk out that door and leave home for a few months and rely on themselves instead of fate might have some interesting stories to tell.
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In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
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We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
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God has just given me such an amazing journey and able to play; it's been so much fun. I'm having a blast!
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On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.
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Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
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I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.
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The more gays and lesbians come out - the more people realize that they have a friend who's gay, which they may not have known before, and they realize this person has the same aspirations and desires and need to be committed and to be part of a community - then they become more accepting.
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The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.
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In the 1930s, photographers such as Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange produced images of sharecroppers and Okies, which drew attention both to the conditions in which these unfortunates found themselves and to their heroic fortitude.
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I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a doctor. The doctors I knew as a very young child must have helped to plant the desire in me, when I was as young as five or six. One homeopathic physician, Dr. Justice Gage Wright, was a great model.
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We didn't come here to become Washington, we came here to change Washington.
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Teenage years are all about crushes: crushes so deep you wanted to inhabit the other person, be inside their skin, see the world through their eyes.
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When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.
