George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I have no sense of direction at all. Thank the Lord for my TomTom, otherwise I'd spend my whole life lost.
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I have always loathed working out.
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Time was God's first creation.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I listen to music to when I'm feeling a certain way or to make myself feel a certain way. So why not make my own music inspired by true emotions?
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There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.
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When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.
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Faith Hill is a big role model.
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When I do write, it happens really easily. I'll just kind of sing along to whatever I'm playing, then find a line to build off of, then sit down and write. When I do write, I take care of business!
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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Going out for rides with my friends and having lunch or dinner at a roadside hotel - that's my favourite time-pass.
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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
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I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.
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Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.
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I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
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Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.
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I don't have a political bone in my body.
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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
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There is an unbroken line of police violence in the United States that takes us all the way back to the days of slavery, the aftermath of slavery, the development of the Ku Klux Klan. There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.
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Jerry and I always felt that the character was enjoying himself. He was having fun: he wasn't taking himself seriously. It was always a lark for him, as you can see in my early drawings.
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The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist...
