George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.
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For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.
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In Swat, there are two jobs a woman's going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a housewife.
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I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
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I want to state clearly that I am a humanitarian, not an activist. I do not follow any agendas - only that of humanity, not only in Saudi Arabia, but all over the world.
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If you go to pilot then you are probably going to go to series. That's my feeling about it.
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I think so badly of philosophy that I don't like to talk about it. … I do not want to say anything bad about my dear colleagues, but the profession of teacher of philosophy is a ridiculous one. We don't need a thousand of trained, and badly trained, philosophers - it is very silly. Actually most of them have nothing to say.
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There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent.But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went.
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I'd like to be able to go on holiday and not to have to hold my belly in for two whole weeks.
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The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.
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Imagination comes of not having things.
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You have to persevere, you have to just not give up, and you have to know what you want. You have to be able to see your dream.
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There is a terrible conservatism, like a cancer, right in the heartlands of music-making, a tremendous resistance to change, an absolute horror of the idea that more people might connect with music. That infuriates me more than I can say.
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If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.
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Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.
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I wasn't really interested in doing anything except going from pilot season to pilot season and sowing my oats in the months between and telling my agency to stop sending me movie scripts, because they'd pile up in my house and make me feel guilty because I had to read them.
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Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
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Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?
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I hate the telephone. I think the lowest circle of hell is reserved for Alexander Graham Bell.
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Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises
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My dad always used to tell me that sometimes you have to have a massive storm in order to clear the sky.
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Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?
