George Bernard Shaw Quotes
We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.
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My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet.
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People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.
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I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.
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Buy other authors' books when you go to their events. Even if you aren't going to read it. Even if you are going to give it away. Even if you aren't interested. Not just for the author but for the bookstore. It's karma and just plain good manners.
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Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate hazardous waste sites around the nation.
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By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?
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The government of Iran has no problem with the American nation.
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We open our door, and we are still committed to open our door for our brothers in Syria. But doesn't mean that we should not keep alone. The international community should really - should really share Lebanon the numbers of refugees and share Lebanon the cost of their living.
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The drills we do, where you're telling kids to memorize things, don't actually work. What works is engaging them and letting them do things and discover things.
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I had the opportunity to go and read to cancer patients in hospitals and saw how something as little as that could make someone's day. I also think it's important to support people who are standing up for a good cause, so that's why I get involved with different campaigns and charities.
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When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all.
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I hope that I have had some effect on the fact that Israel is a start-up nation.
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He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.
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You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
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We must be an inclusive nation that respects and supports all of its citizens: a nation that doesn't give up on anyone who hasn't given up on themselves.
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Patriots don't let their nation default.
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Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
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Once you have the gallows, you’ll find new reasons to hang people from it.
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The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.
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Well, it's funny because, "The Green Leaves of Summer" and "The Alamo" theme are the same thing. There's just - the Brothers Four was a different recording of it.
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My pawing over the ancients and semi-ancients has been one struggle to find out what has been done, once and for all, better than it can ever be done again, and to find out what remains for us to do, and plenty does remain, for if we still feel the same emotions as those who launched a thousand ships, it is quite certain that we came on these feelings differently, through different nuances, by different intellectual gradations. Each age has its own abounding gifts yet only some ages transmute them into matters of duration.
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From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
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A home in the country is what a city man hopes to buy and a farmer hopes to sell.
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We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.
