George Bernard Shaw Quotes

The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.

George Bernard Shaw

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• Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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• I have played Blair Cramer for 20 years, I feel a personal investment in the success of 'One Life to Live.' I love the show, I'm a fan of the characters, and I have invested in the journey these fictional characters have traveled.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
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• Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.

  

  Mae Jemison
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• My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.

  

  Larry Niven
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• I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.

  

  Sam Brownback
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• For some reason, the fans got behind me, and I don't know exactly why that is. I wasn't supposed to main event WrestleMania XXX, but the fans were so vocal about it that the fans had no choice but to put me in the match. I've had a lot of lucky breaks.

  

  Daniel Bryan
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• If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems redundant to make a lot of noise about something when, in fact, there it is. But if someone tries to remove it, it becomes important for you to formulate your own defenses of it.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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• I might not know who I was yesterday or who I'm going to be tomorrow, but I know who I am right now.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
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• I don't know what would I do in future; I'll decide it later.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
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• Most people know Muslims in their community but don't realize it.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
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• I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don't have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later on, the dresses are OK, but I like to sketch, and I like to see trails made after my sketches that look the same. It is you know, what I like.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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• All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• We live in one of the most complex ages for young, professional women.

  

  Natalie Dormer
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• Self-expression is always a right, but it's still not there to be abused.

  

  Isaac Hayes
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• I know how to put it into a melody and make it comical but sexual at the same time.

  

  R. Kelly
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• Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it.

  

  Ian Smith
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• One good thing about TV Land is you're always surrounded by people who know what they're doing, in terms of your fellow actors.

  

  Wayne Knight
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• I have a funny relationship with religion. I'm a big believer in ritualistic behavior as long as it doesn't hurt anybody. But I'm not a big fan of rules. And yet, we cannot live in a world without order.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
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• I have done theatre, and I enjoy the process of smaller films a lot more. When I do such films, there are certain things which I get to do which are untapped. The scenes give me the liberty to play and mould the character in accordance to the director's mindset.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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• My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
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• Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the things that matter to us.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
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• I'd love to say that I could write political songs, but I don't feel clued-up enough.

  

  Paloma Faith
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• The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
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