George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

George Bernard Shaw

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• Honestly speaking, I don't like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvement, so if I were to see any of my films, like 'Dhoom,' I might say... 'It would have been better if...' or 'had it been...' and this is all about evolving.

  

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• I have a great relationship with my parents. I have not been on lithium.

  

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• Greetings and death to our enemies.

  

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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 think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.

  

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• I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
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• You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.

  

  Daniel Clowes
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• During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.

  

  Xi Jinping
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• Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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• I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.

  

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• We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.

  

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• All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.

  

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• Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, has long appealed to biographers. Paine was present at the creation both of the United States and of the French Republic. His eloquence, in the pamphlet 'Common Sense,' propelled the American colonists toward independence.

  

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• Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

  

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• I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.

  

  Ted Demme
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• That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.

  

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• I took a plane from New York City to Los Angeles for an audition. I met all the people. After that, I was told to have another audition, but I didn't want to go there again.

  

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• Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show.

  

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• We will that all men know we blame not all the lords, nor all those that are about the king's person, nor all gentlemen nor yeomen, nor all men of law, nor all bishops, nor all priests, but all such as may be found guilty by just and true inquiry and by the law.

  

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• Let me make a short, opening, blanket comment. There are no 'good guns'. There are no 'bad guns'. Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat to anybody - except bad people.

  

  Charlton Heston
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• The Cosby years were a major part of my life, but it is the past; I don't really concentrate on it.

  

  Lisa Bonet
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• I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.

  

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• Sometimes you have to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything - whatever is bringing you down - get rid of it. Because you will find that when you are free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.

  

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• Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Society
  • Intolerance
  • Founded