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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Sure, politics ain't bean-bag. 'Tis a man's game, an' women, childer, cripples an' prohybitionists 'd do well to keep out iv it.
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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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We do not argue about what happened in the past but discuss what we desire for the future.
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I studied law, I got an alright degree, and then I was going to go and do something called an LPC, which is a Legal Practice Course, which qualifies you as a lawyer. But I didn't end up doing it, because I went to drama school instead.
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There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.
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It was not any grace in me, but God that put this earnest care into my heart, that I should be one of the hunters or fishers whom long ago God foreshowed would come in the last days.
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The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination...
