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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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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'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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Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.
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Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.
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It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
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If looks help, that's great, but we don't want it to be the featured thing. It's totally superficial.
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The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.
