George Bernard Shaw Quotes
The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.
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Working with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little.
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When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, and - do we dare breathe the name - William Faulkner.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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One of the most effective tools that the Cheney-Bush junta has used to marginalize dissenting or even mildly inquisitive American citizens has been the accusation of being unpatriotic.
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Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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If the Knesset is a temple, then Feiglin is the idol. A Knesset where Feiglin presides is an impure Knesset.
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Writers are so important.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
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There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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It goes way, way back when we were under Sweden's rule. We always think they are better than us. We played against them so often for so many years. Every country has one opponent they want to beat and for us, it's Sweden.
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If you want to play the good roles, spend more time in in college and in acting class than you do in the gym, and you'll have the career you want.
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I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
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And hold up to the sun my little taper.
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She was ruined. She’d become anathema.
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I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
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The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.
