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.
Waris Dirie -
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.
Kat Edmonson -
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.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
In Swat, there are two jobs a woman's going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a housewife.
Malala Yousafzai -
I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?
Cameron Diaz -
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
J. Paul Getty
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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.
Basmah bint Saud -
If you go to pilot then you are probably going to go to series. That's my feeling about it.
Gabriel Macht -
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.
Karl Popper -
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.
Ani DiFranco -
I'd like to be able to go on holiday and not to have to hold my belly in for two whole weeks.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.
Marcus Aurelius
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Imagination comes of not having things.
LeRoy Neiman -
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.
Dawn Steel -
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.
Charles Hazlewood -
If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.
Peter Davison -
Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.
Joe Baca -
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.
Jason Bateman
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Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.
Francesca Lia Block -
I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!
Al Lewis -
Margaret Thatcher is democratic enough to talk down to anyone.
Austin Mitchell -
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
H. L. Mencken -
Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?
George Bernard Shaw