George Bernard Shaw Quotes
If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.
Quotes to Explore
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
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I will tell you with 100 percent confidence, Jon Jones is not deep in my head. The fact he actually thinks that, it makes me smile every day.
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I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. I want people to smile and giggle and enjoy the book. I'm not trying to save the world through literature.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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My education was very tough.
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I did five seasons of 'Baywatch,' and I did four seasons of 'VIP.' I've been around awhile.
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Jill Clayburgh's life so closely paralleled mine, I feel as though a part of me lived a little through her and died a little with her.
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When you make your living as a singer, you have to go where the gigs are.
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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
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I wrote lots of pages. I showed what I wrote to Iowa friends, and they said, 'Good start.' That was discouraging because I thought it was almost done.
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In Holland, we have a saying: 'A knife cuts on two sides.' With the rubber duck, I'm trying to show people what they haven't been seeing in their public space. When the rubber duck is there and when it's gone, you know.
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I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
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I always loved to gamble. I never got close to a horse. Fate dealt me a terrible blow when it gave me a good horse the first time out. I thought how easy this is. Now I love being around them.
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'The Five People You Meet in Heaven' by Mitch Albom - I read it in eight hours and blubbed my eyes out when it finished. I've thought about the story every day since.
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I have become an enthusiast for the printed word again. I have to be that, I now understand, because I want to be a character in all of my works. I can do that in print. In a movie, somehow, the author always vanishes. Everything of mine which has been filmed so far has been one character short, and that character is me.
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If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.
