George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
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But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.
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How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.
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There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
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I've seen so many excellent actors - excellent actors - who, the minute they're told they're in a comedy, turn into God knows what - creatures from another planet! I mean they just... the voice changes, they don't look the same, it's like - it has no similarity to any living human being, do you know what I mean?
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The vast Pacific Ocean has ample space for China and the United States. We welcome a constructive role by the United States in promoting peace, stability and prosperity in the region. We also hope that the United States will fully respect and accommodate the major interests and legitimate concerns of Asia-Pacific countries.
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America is the most creative country and the most powerful government in the world.
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Regarding the Hall of Fame, when they decided I was going to be one of the possible candidates, when I heard that, I was so thrilled. You're always hoping for something like that.
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I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.
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One thing I've learned in my limited experience is you can justify anything intellectually. There are a million reasons to stay with someone, and a million reasons to end something - so you can really only trust your gut.
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I've often felt I've been born out of my time, and when I started Fairground Attraction in the 1980s, I wanted to be a 1940s jazz singer.
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I don't believe we're the party of big business.
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You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host.
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'Can't Stop the Music' has become a cult film. It's kind of shocking to me. People come up to me all the time and say, 'I just saw it!'
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Parlette spoke slowly and evenly. 'I am trying to prevent a bloodbath. Is that clear enough for you? I'm trying to prevent a civil war that could kill half the people in this world.'
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Why resist temptation? There will always be more.
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The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.
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Well the first order of government is to preserve the public order and safety.
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I hate dogma in any form. I hated it in the Catholic Church and Girl Scout troops of the 1950s, and I hate in in gay activism and established feminism today.
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I'd love to take a year off and travel the world under the radar. I would love to do it really low key. I wouldn't need to stay in fancy hotels or anything; I just want to explore - but I don't know how I'd do it. Would I shave my head to try and go incognito? Ha ha! I'm not telling.
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Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.
