George Bernard Shaw Quotes

The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.

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I have never believed in the impossible.
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Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.
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Basically hated everything made in the '80s, music television - it was really about the '90s for me. 'Encino Man' was a big hit. 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights.'
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I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.
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One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
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But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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'Frozen' definitely isn't about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that.
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We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, 'Oh man, this is the stuff.' It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.
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It comes down to personal style, and that's what's sexy and attractive in a man.
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I consider no man honest who does not observe towards other nations the principles which he desires to be observed towards his own: and therefore I will not interfere in your domestic questions.
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When you're devoted to a greater freedom in the world, you're willing to compromise something you love.
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I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.
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Though the demonetisation move should be welcomed, govt should have planned well in advance to ensure that no common man suffer.
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A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
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It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had. Any man might have his coming to him to ask him grace or judgment in such case as the king may give.
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The principal form that the work of love takes is attention. When we love another person we give him or her our attention; we attend to that person's growth.
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The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.