George Bernard Shaw Quotes

I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.

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• Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Character
  • Lost
  • Suffering

• It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • God
  • Die
  • Problem

• Acting is in your soul.

  

  LaTanya Richardson
  • Soul
  • Acting
  • Your

• When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Smart
  • Intelligence
  • Dolphin

• Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Friend
  • Wife
  • Best

• 'The Lunchbox' is the kind of cinema that is true to its word and not cluttered or corrupted by some of the mainstream pre-requisites. I love the way I make movies, but there are certain stories that need to be told in a certain way, and 'The Lunchbox' is that movie, and I'm so proud to present this movie.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Kind
  • Proud
  • Stories

• In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • Today
  • Democracy

• I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • College
  • Football
  • Sports

• Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Work
  • Beginning
  • Computers

• It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Marriage
  • Write
  • How

• I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to 'ER' were maddening and there was this assumption that the two of us were looking at each other with rage and resentment, which was also not the case.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Think
  • Environment
  • Healthy

• I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Up
  • Today
  • Parents

• These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Nature
  • Environmental
  • Days

• But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • You
  • Know
  • Realize

• I always thought I was going to be a great poet, and go and live in New York, where the great poets lived - you know, where Whitman had walked the streets.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Great
  • Live
  • Thought

• All I want to do is be the best attorney general that I can be.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Want
  • Best
  • I Can

• There was a time in my life when one aspect of my lifestyle called for watching a lot of television.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Life
  • Time
  • My Life

• You've got to believe you can get a result from the game.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Believe
  • Game
  • You

• I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it. You don't have a lot of options in Indiana anyway, though, so I didn't want to stay there. I graduated early and worked a bunch of really odd jobs, and then I joined the Marines.

  

  Adam Driver
  • School
  • High
  • Want

• I love insults, devastating takedowns, things that could be described by Twitter hacks as 'shots fired,' and funny ad hominem attacks.

  

  Alex Pareene
  • Funny

• We have seen that, in another unfunded mandate, the so-called No Child Left Behind Act, which created tougher standards, and we all support that, but Congress did not provide the money to attract and hire the best teachers.

  

  Bob Filner
  • Money
  • Support

• I'm not auditioning to play convenience-store clerks. I don't see any benefit in that.

  

  Adhir Kalyan

• I squatted for most of my adult life. I'm not condoning squatting; it was just the only way I could do what I wanted to do. I didn't have, you know, a trust fund or parents that could help out.

  

  Jamie Hince
  • Life
  • Help
  • Parents

• I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Parents
  • Born
  • Married