George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.
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As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
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As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
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The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that.
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I get inspiration from literally everything and anything. I take inspiration from people, relationships, stories, and I take inspiration from movies I see, books I read and songs I hear.
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You try to pull away the experiences until you get to the core of humanity, and you find that light that exists in everybody. It's that light that I'm searching for in all of my work - is that connective thing, that ether that enters all of us - you know what I mean? That's a part of God.
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Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
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When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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A lie to me is a dream that might come true.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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I think to be Miss U.S.A., first of all, you need to represent everybody, all of us here.
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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
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Because many of us have been in game shows for some time, there's always someone around who can share a story of Johnny O or Jay Stewart that I never heard.
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I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.
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You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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I could get my camera and point it at two people and not point it at the homeless third person to the right of the frame, or not include the murder that's going on to the left of the frame.
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I think everyone in their 30s looks back at their 20s and thinks, 'Oh God, if I'd just done this and this, and not done that.'
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But I have been avoiding talking about what I'm doing now because it's frustrating for people to hear about things that aren't available yet.
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I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.
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Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.
