George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.
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The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
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There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.
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In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.
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I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.
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A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
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I started doing comedy with no plan to do voice work. Voice work came as a function of doing comedy and meeting people who eventually develop shows like that. I didn't seek out from an early age to be on cartoons.
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Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.
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I have a fierce temper. I've mastered it over the years, but when I'm angry, no one can force me to do anything I don't want to.
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The waves of religion based on terrorism in the 1990s are based on the tormented response of a mutilated Muslim society whose progressive forces have been savagely emasculated. Why on earth is the Arab world so hostile to women? Why can it not see women as a force for development?
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My faith in the Constitution is whole; it is complete; it is total. I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.
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Salutations
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There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.
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Joy is the best makeup.
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The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendor that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.
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It's the prerogative of the writer to rewrite the world into one he would like to exist.
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Owning great landmarks such as the Empire State Building or Trump Tower or the General Motors Building or the Plaza Hotel - there are certain just spectacular landmarks - it's an honor; it's really an honor.
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Bruges is a beautiful medieval city almost untouched by time. If you like jazz, you will be well catered for. If you like chocolate and beer, you will be in heaven.
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Relationships are super complicated and always have dark and light in them. And all good sexual relationships do, too.
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Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . .
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It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.
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I tolerate lots of people I have no patience or respect for. Then, as soon as I can, I rat on them.
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The opposite of love is fear, not hate.
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The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination...
