George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Working with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little.
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I do Athlete Devotion throughout all my fight camps. I am a Christian, so I fight with God first, and I have my devotions with me everywhere I go.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?
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To me, country music has always been the home for a great song.
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.
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This is something that I witnessed out on the campaign trail for three years, which is that there is a total disconnect between the rhetoric regarding immigration and the reality. And I'm speaking as a border state.
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.
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My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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I remember actually liking a girl in high school who was kind of an outcast and weird, and people made fun of her. I remember hanging out with her, but I was apprehensive about telling anyone I really liked her.
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Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire, Begin it with weak straws.
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I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.
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Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.
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What if Saddam fails to comply and we fail to act, or we take some ambiguous third route, which gives him yet more opportunities to develop this program of weapons of mass destruction? ... Well, he will conclude that the international community has lost its will. He will then conclude that he can go right on and do more to rebuild an arsenal of devastating destruction. And some day, some way, I guarantee you he'll use the arsenal.
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Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.
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Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
