George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Boys are so much less mature than girls as it is.
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For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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All souls are equal and alike and have the similar nature and qualities.
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Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.
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I was the kid at six who was like, 'I want to be in a jazz club.' I was never the pop kid, ever. I mean that's not true, I had a couple years where I wanted to be Tiffany and Debbie Gibson, but aside from that, no.
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I like John McCain. He can always be counted on for a good quote.
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After the first million, money isn't important.
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I went to a lot of theatre. My parents were very involved with the performing arts. I went to nightclub shows when I was a little girl. We went to Florida and we would go to the Cocoanut Grove down there. We'd go see Lena Horne, Jimmy Durante, Sophie Tucker and Judy Garland.
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Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still. Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death Pray for us now and at the hour of our death.
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Robbery is common.
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The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.
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Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science. Its principles may be eternal, but the expression of those principles requires continual development.
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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
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When I was at school, I auditioned for the school play as Queen Gertrude, and I fell in love with it there and then.
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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
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Hollywood is what you make it; you have to choose company with care because you become what they are.
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With all of the media and all of the pressures of the times, we have to have a spiritual foundation in order to survive. It's truly what I believe.
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I was very interested in the relationship between the man who speaks and the woman who listens. I was drawn to the idea that the relationship between a man and a woman can be something like a war itself, very cruel and violent.
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I love breakfast - I like going to sleep at night because I know I get to wake up and eat in the morning.
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
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Because of economics, you have to feed the demographics that are buying your product. So, as Asia becomes a much more economic influence on the products that are being made from America, I think people have to be sensitive.
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When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves.
