George Bernard Shaw Quotes
All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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Twenty years ago my parents wouldn't know who the X-Men were, and now everybody knows that stuff. It means that deconstruction of the superhero is something you can do. All those movies have led to a point where we can finally have 'Watchmen' with a Superman character who doesn't want to save the world and a Batman who has trouble in bed.
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'
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Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.
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I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.
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I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
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When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what it was about nuclear science, but whatever it was that triggered that interest, it stuck. I went after that one with a passion.
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I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.
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There's no business like show business.
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Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I'm not saying that's the only calling card, but it's a whole crayon box.
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Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.
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I'll keep doing my training and I'm sure the goals will come.
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And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight.
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English middle class to suppose that the working class is not desperately anxious to become just like itself. I am afraid this must be unlearned.
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
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We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.
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I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee.
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All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.
