George Bernard Shaw Quotes
What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?
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I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
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Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.
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Ocean, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
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Let me tell you what changed my mind: it was when Donald Trump picked Mike Pence to be his running mate. I was convinced that Donald Trump knew exactly what he was doing, and he knew that was rounded out the ticket in many ways.
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I'm only 5 ft. 7 in. tall, and for modelling, that's small, so I wasn't getting signed, but I kept on pushing.
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I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on.
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I like to smile when its natural. I'm not mad or anything. That's my style.
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It's hard when you have a lot of naysayers to know when they might be right or when to ignore them and go with your gut and do something that may seem risky.
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This book is past the first flush of youth. It is a book that is in puberty. It is hesitating, and from the vantage point of the mature reader, it is both a sad and amusing reminder of the part which is not always attractive enough to be revisited.
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Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fantasy or western mystery stories or so-called literary stories. All those things are essentially untrue. But it has to have a truth at the core of it.
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God’s plan provides a way for family relationships to extend beyond the grave. We can return to the presence of God, eternally united with our families.
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What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm.
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I'm a guy who comes from a small town in the Midwest. It's not in my nature to say the most explicit things in public.
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Sometimes you become a character, and sometimes the character becomes you.
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Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: "Leave behind all hope, you who enter here."
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Might the peasant expect the Almighty to stay the thunder storm, which clears the air of a nation from pestilence, lest the lightning bold should in its flash kill his cow?
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I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.
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I don't give a damn about the stock market. But I do care about jobs.
