George Bernard Shaw Quotes

I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there.

George Bernard Shaw

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• At first, I found the music I was making really hard to find a home for. I felt like my attitude was really British, but not the actual sounds I was making. Back in 2003, when I made 'Galang,' there were no clubs that had an 'anything and everything' attitude.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Music
  • Home
  • Attitude

• Today, not to take away from any of the present artists, but music has gotten a little shallow, in my opinion. Everybody's talking about the same thing: sex, money, clothes, cheating... I want to open up not necessarily better conversations, but, in my opinion, more important ones, and touch on things that are actually going on.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Up
  • Music
  • Important

• I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Pieces
  • Only
  • Outdoors

• You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Why
  • Bad
  • Know

• Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Always
  • Once
  • Cubs

• Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.

  

  Edmund White
  • Success
  • Me
  • Boy

• I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Love
  • Character

• I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • God
  • Believe
  • Afraid

• It was becoming clear that, from being at the top at Holy Cross, we were at the bottom at St. Peter's. Objectively, this was very good, for it offered us a challenge and an opportunity to grow if we were ready to take it; and we surely were.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Good
  • Opportunity
  • Challenge

• Actually, I've never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I've always worked, and I guess my mind is busy all the time. I've been in a lot of things just because of my own intellectual curiosity.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Myself

• Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • School
  • High
  • Parents

• I'm incredibly impatient; I'd like to be less so, and more content with the now.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Like
  • Now
  • Content

• There have been some hard times, people around me supported me.

  

  Laure Manaudou
  • People
  • Me
  • Supported

• Black people have been fighting for basic citizenship rights since the inception of the country.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Country
  • Black

• I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Believe
  • Story
  • I Believe

• It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • Men
  • Teach

• I think something very weird's going on now, 'cause the power that is permitted to youth is quite extraordinary. And they are sort of run by that kind of power.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • Power
  • Weird

• Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Decision

• Like a lot of people, I sold my first script in graduate school at UCLA, a 'Joan of Arc' for producer Joel Silver.

  

  Laeta Kalogridis
  • People
  • School

• I think a lot of us share a fear that we and people we love will lose control of our own destinies at the end of life.

  

  John C. Danforth
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Destiny

• Heckles always vary. I mean, some people are just drunk, and it's nonsense, or, you know, some people just want to just repeat something I've said or add their own two cents about an opinion, but because of the nature of what I do and who I am, like, I also get the racist stuff, which is hard.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • People
  • Nature
  • Opinion

• If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

  

  Democritus
  • Great
  • Small
  • Poverty

• Do not learn how to react. Learn how to respond.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Learn
  • Respond
  • React

• I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Heaven
  • Animals
  • Consent