George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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I'm never happy with what I've written. You imagine, before you start, there's a cathedral, and the moment it starts on the page, it's a garden shed. And then you just try to make it the best shed you can.
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Well, life is dark, isn't it? Mostly, it's dreadful. At the same time, death is funny too. I mean, look at the fuss we make of it.
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Things that don't have a big impact seem to be crucial. Always when you go out to make a movie you have questions, "What if this doesn't work? What if that doesn't work?" you want to cover yourself, you want to bring back enough [footage] so you can do something.
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Both chaos theory and fractal have had contacts in the past when they are both impossible to develop and in a certain sense not ready to be developed.
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Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis.
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Khaddar does not displace a single cottage industry.
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America can't succeed unless you succeed. That is why I am running for president of the United States.
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The best way to get to know any bunch of people is to go and listen to their music.
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The most clear way to decide the actor is to watch them doing stuff during their downtime. When they do something that's making both of you laugh, you see if there's a character or situation that could be written into.
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When we formed the band in 1970, we set out to try to write great songs like the songs we heard when we were growing up.
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The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all.
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The fumes are coming out, but we're still running. We have the pedal to the medal all the way down. I'm not going to let anyone slow down. We need three more wins. There's no way we can settle for less.
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For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength and breath And the want Of thought is death Then am I A happy fly If I live Or if I die.
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The foolish rush to end their lives. Only the steadfast soul survives.
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Alan Greenspan needs to create a housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq bubble,” cried New York Times columnist Paul Krugman in 2002.8 And that’s exactly what Greenspan did. Much of the new cash that flooded into the market as a result of his policies went into real estate, where small fluctuations in interest rates have a huge impact on prices.
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Defeatism is the wretchedest of policies.