George Bernard Shaw Quotes
A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
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I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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I think my job is to keep the ball down. I always say I try to go out there and get early contact, and strikeouts just seem to happen.
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We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you're the luckiest person on the planet, and the possibility of finding two is just bizarre. It isn't. We have multiple passions.
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The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.
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How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.
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Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?
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As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.
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It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.
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I'm all about showing people that I'm a little messed up, I have a lot of the same problems you have. By exposing myself and putting myself out there, people can relate to me and my act won't grow stale. I mean, nobody wants to hear a comedian say, 'Life is great.'
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The fight scenes are pretty easy and come pretty naturally for me, to be honest.
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Maternity leave and parental leave is absolutely vital for strengthening families. It's an issue for men and women.
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I actually think I'm more of a turtle than Verne is. Where Verne is up on two legs and moving at full speed and doesn't pull his head into the shell very often, I in reality was five or ten minutes later to every recording session.
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I used to be really wild and dissatisfied and angry and had a journey toward becoming a lady; I think that's with anybody coming into their own power.
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She has peaked. I have the feeling of 1945. Mrs Thatcher has never known losing office as Gladstone did and the need to face changing circumstances and clear new obstacles before returning to power.
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Nothing satisfies God but the voluntary sacrifice of love. The pain of Christ gave God no pleasure - only the love that was tested by pain - the love of perfect obedience.
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Why live outside the US? Do you want health care or safe food products or democracy or something? They're all overrated. Stay for the excellent cable TV.
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A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.
