George Bernard Shaw Quotes
What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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No access to me, nor my staff, will ever affect what we do to protect consumers of the state of Florida.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.
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The fact that we're living in a country where 90 percent of the people want further gun laws - to maybe somehow put a dent in some of this insanity that's happening - and yet there's no further legislation taking place, it's very frustrating and upsetting.
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I love to design and remodel houses, from working with the contractors to picking the colours, materials, kitchen and bathroom accessories to finally what furniture goes where.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.
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On a global scale, the way Trump talks about dealing with foreign policy is very scary.
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I don't follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It might sound funny to you, but it's like using English language. I use an English word only when I know its meaning and understand its connotation. You won't hear me say, 'What's up, dude' or anything like that just for the heck of it.
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There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.
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I'll come up with an idea for a character, and I'll write some jokes and make sure that that character is going to have some legs to it - that it's really going to work. If I can come up with jokes and material that I think will work, then I make a cheap version of the doll. Achmed started out just being this little plastic toy from the store.
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The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet’s dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.
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What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.
