George Bernard Shaw Quotes
You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.
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Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.
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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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I have never worried about 'Frontline' becoming an old-fashioned news brand, because we never were.
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Kate Moss has great style.
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Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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I think I started to have thoughts to really want to be serious about my work when I was about twenty-five, and I just kind of started to look into that direction and moved into it.
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I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
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The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.
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The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.
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It sounds depressing, but I think when you truly love someone, you'll never stop loving them.
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In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.
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'Pigeonholed' isn't the right word, because I feel like I've had a very wide range of characters that I've been allowed to play.
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When a man sits in our jails for a number of years, and around him friends and family become angry, that is how we create terrorists.
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Sometimes I write them down in musical notation as a trigger to remind me about certain directions to go. Or I can be specific about a sound I'm looking for.
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How you go about moving within the world you live in says so much about who you are.
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I think that one of the hardest things in the world to be is a black male. I mean everyone hates your guts. White men are afraid of you. White women are afraid of you. The cops hate you. The government wants you dead. Your own people want to shoot you for what you got. You just can't get over it. And even if you are able to get over it you're forced to do it on the white guy's terms.
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A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.
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If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocery store, looking to see what to buy for dinner.
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I defy any woman that doesn't feel more elegant and more groomed and ready for an evening than if you have a blow dry.
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If a young man gets married, and starts a family and spends the rest of his life working at a soul-destroying job, he is held up as an example of virtue and responsibility. The other type of man, living only for himself, working only for himself, doing first one thing and then another simply because he enjoys it and because he has to keep only himself, sleeping where and when he wants, and facing woman when he meets her on equal terms and not as one of a million slaves, is rejected by society. The free, unshackled man has no place in its midst.
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You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.
