George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Nature is under control but not disturbed.
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Being a celebrity, I don't even have to talk.
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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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Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
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Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.
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Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it there.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.
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I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
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I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
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I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.
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Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.
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Theatre is live content, and you can tell if you have worked your audience.
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I haven't deliberately set out to play the blonde bombshell in my movies. In fact, it's probably been quite the opposite. After the success of The Mask, I wasn't offered all that many blonde bombshell parts, to be honest. I think people believed from the beginning that I could actually walk and talk at the same time.
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I don't know whether they will give me a project just because I am cooperative and behave nicely, but it really helps. I never demand for anything or never throw tantrums at work.
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Why not just have fun with clothes? We should be more light-hearted about how we dress, how we look. If you experiment, you can go wrong, clearly; but you can have a wonderful time doing it!
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The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse than the one it replaces.
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A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.
