George Bernard Shaw Quotes
If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community...
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.
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In our house, everyone's opinion is welcome. I grew up in a house where everything wasn't when it came to politics or religion.
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We who curate our Twitter feeds and Facebook walls understand that at least part of what we're doing publicly, 'like'-ing what we like, is trying to separate ourselves from the herd.
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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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Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
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I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.
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Just now, Christianity is in the ascendant. Buddhism and Taoism are decadent; their influence cannot long hold its own. Buddhism has long since passed its meridian; Taoism has only demons, not gods.
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America has not produced a more salient political musician than Gil Scott-Heron.
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People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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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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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.
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I have already reached out to the janata, and I am only trying to acquaint myself with people's problems.
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If you like a wine that you drink, now with your phone, it's so easy. Just take a picture of the label. You learn about it. You learn where it comes from and what the soil is like and why you like it. And that'll lead you to another wine.
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I'm still Christian. I was not raised in a Christian church to hate people. I was taught to love people and accept people. I know what I believe.
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You cannot get involved in debate on 'MOTD'. You can do it on Sky because they've got hours and hours. We've got a couple of minutes. It's a very disciplined show. Our primary purpose is to show the action, and the analysis is very secondary. We have lots of people who would prefer no analysis. We have lots of people who would prefer more analysis.
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A victorious general must know how to employ severity, justness, and mildness by turns, if he would allay sedition or prevent it.
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As a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of evil; as a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of good.
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I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, but I never have. I just thought children might like my sort of visual humour.
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When you're doing martial arts, you feel like you can master certain skills and be so much more in control of who you are, so that really appealed to me.
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If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community...
