George Bernard Shaw Quotes

We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?

George Bernard Shaw

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  Valerie Plame
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• When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.

  

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• Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.

  

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• And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.

  

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• Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.

  

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• Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.

  

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• The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

  

  Walter Lippmann
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• In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.

  

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• Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

  

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• Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

  

  Hans Hofmann
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• Because Jews were kicked out of every country in Europe at one time or another, and plenty of other places as well, there isn't an ability to identify with a national heritage - you'll never hear a Jew say 'I'm German' or 'I'm Polish,' without saying something about being Jewish as well, and for good reason.

  

  Adam Mansbach
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• You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.

  

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• Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.

  

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• The one thing I loved so much about making 'Pitch Perfect 2' - especially in comparison to a movie like 'Ten Thousand Saints' - is you can go and be yourself, and you just know that all your weirdness and craziness and imperfections are completely embraced and accepted.

  

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• Every song I write is autobiographical and is about people, and that's one of the things that gets complicated. You have to decide where's your place as a songwriter.

  

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• When I started acting, I was told over and over again, 'You're no good.' But I said to myself, 'You've got to keep it up.'

  

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• Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.

  

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• Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.

  

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• My father used to administer herbal medicine for free. But I can't give drugs for free. So the next best thing is to give it at as low a price as possible.

  

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• My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God.

  

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• The purpose of Plan Columbia was to deal with the increased cultivation and illegal activity associated with that cultivation concerning narco trafficking in Columbia.

  

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• We deliberate not about ends, but about means.

  

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  • Means
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• Faith for me is more like a conversation than a sentence with an exclamation point at the end. It’s like living and breathing; there’s always more to learn.

  

  Josh Wilson
  • Faith
  • Living
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• We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Living
  • Graves
  • Murdered beasts