George Bernard Shaw Quotes
When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.
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The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
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The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name. My auntie came from Europe to visit us, and she was like, 'Just call yourself something else.'
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I'm a realist and I always have been. Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.
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The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
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I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
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The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.
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I like to do Pilates.
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I am really addicted to music.
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I know he played on the last record but I don't wake up in the middle of the night thinking of Eric Clapton.
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The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail, or an e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times.
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Do your best, one shot at a time and then move on. Remember that golf is just a game.
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Sydney's a beautiful city. It was a great experience.
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I'm anti-big power. I don't know if that's populist or not.
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Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals.
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My family lives a pretty normal life.
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I'm funny at home too, but not deliberately. My wife is usually laughing at me rather than with me.
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Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.
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When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.
