George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Even to this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an American by telling him something about himself which is equally true about every human being on the face of the globe. He at once resents this as a disparagement and an assertion on my part that people in other parts of the globe are not like that, and are loftily superior to such weaknesses.
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God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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I love the Wendy Syred boutique in Taunton. She has fantastic off-the-wall stuff, such as Vivienne Westwood. And I always have huge success in Omah Shoes, which is also in Taunton. I've got such small feet - three and a half - but I always find my size there.
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I was the 'no one understands me' teenager. But I think truly I've realized now that I didn't understand a thing myself. So I just had some livin' to do.
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Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.
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A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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I think my strength is always been in being very natural. I think Shakespeare and things like that would be more a stretch for me.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
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Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.
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I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit the crimes they commit.
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I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.
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If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.
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My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we're the parents of Iggy Pop.
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In London, it's quite a rarefied activity to be on an analyst's couch.
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People resent being shown that they don't approach the complexities of the problem - they don't know what exists beyond the surface ripples.
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Every citizen knows his place. He is born to that place, and the elaborate discipline of training and education and surgery he undergoes fits him at last so completely to it that he has neither ideas nor organs for any purpose beyond it.
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Even to this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an American by telling him something about himself which is equally true about every human being on the face of the globe. He at once resents this as a disparagement and an assertion on my part that people in other parts of the globe are not like that, and are loftily superior to such weaknesses.
