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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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My parents went crazy when they found out that I had gotten the part in 'Conversations With My Father!' I'd never given acting a thought. They were proud of me and very encouraging.
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Film, as far as I'm concerned, is my area of artistic endeavor, so I never think of a movie that gets released as being all done-it's just when they took it away from you.
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You're like a dull knife, just ain't cuttin', just talkin' loud and saying nothing
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My friend, Dennis Mathis, was reading Eastern European and Japanese experimental writers, and I brought the Latin American writers to his attention, so we exchanged books and bounced off one another.
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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.
