George Bernard Shaw Quotes

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

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• I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Long
  • Now
  • Racing

• Long term I do believe internationally there is a huge misunderstanding of Russia.

  

  Oleg Deripaska
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Russia

• If God wants to take my left arm, that's OK, as long as I can walk and play with my kids. I'm a lot improved. I was worse than this after the accident.

  

  Manute Bol
  • God
  • Long
  • Kids

• Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.

  

  J. Irwin Miller
  • Long
  • Business
  • Financial

• If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Long
  • Humor
  • Suicide

• San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.

  

  Gavin Newsom
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  • Kind
  • Leader

• When I finally finished the 'Two Suns' tour, which went on for quite a long time, I felt like a bit of a husk. And I remember thinking, 'I need to spend some time in one place, and just be at home.' So I guess the first year of that three and a half years was spent just trying to kind of get back to normal again.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Long

• And when I first came out from New York, I hadn't driven in a long time. Now I'm like Joe Speedster.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Time
  • Long
  • New York

• I guess I never had a better experience than working on The Long Riders, and at the same time, I never had a harder time than what I did making Southern Comfort.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Time
  • Long
  • Experience

• Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.

  

  Walter Winchell
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  • Remember
  • You

• I can think of no other writer who so thoroughly embodies the Jamesian spirit as Alison Lurie. Like him she can excavate all the possibilities of a theme. Like his, her books seem long, unbroken threads, seamless progressions of effects.

  

  Edmund White
  • Long
  • She
  • Think

• The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.

  

  Larry Page
  • World
  • Long
  • Search

• As long as it says Metallica on the record it's Metallica.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
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  • Record
  • Metallica

• The simple truth is, the short-term solution is for the FDA to allow more importation of safe vaccines from other nations. But the long-term solution is to get more vaccine production within the U.S.

  

  Larry Craig
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  • Truth
  • Simple

• I simplify the spices. I'm the same way as everybody else: if I look at a recipe and there's ten spices in it, I'm going to have to think long and hard about when I'm going to be able to make that... so I try to simplify the spices to three or four.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • Long
  • Think
  • Same

• Life is one long jubilee.

  

  Ira Gershwin
  • Life
  • Long
  • Jubilee

• People have different takes on clothes and what to wear and colors and all that stuff, so why make a big deal about uniformity? It took me a long time to grasp that particular concept, simply because I was coming from the James Brown thing. Again, I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Man

• It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

  

  Sally Field
  • Time
  • Long
  • Eyes

• The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.

  

  Jean Baudrillard
  • World
  • Evil

• I was clear about the fact that my first film should be 'big,' since it's the start of your whole career graph.

  

  Kriti Sanon
  • Career

• Five things are requisite to a good officer — ability, clean hands, despatch, patience, and impartiality.

  

  William Penn
  • Hands
  • Ability
  • Clean

• I got to thinking about relationships and partial lobotomies. Two seemingly different ideas that might just be perfect together - like chocolate and peanut butter.

  

  Sarah Jessica Parker
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Together

• I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
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  • Dirty