George Bernard Shaw Quotes
My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.
Quotes to Explore
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
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People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.
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No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
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We're not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.
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The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
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My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'
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If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.
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When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'
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The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
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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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What drew me to the character is that Roberto Duran is the son of an American soldier - a Marine - stationed in Panama and a humble Panamanian mother, and he was abandoned.
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A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
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Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.
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I cannot grasp the difference between killing people with drones or rifles and knives. The objective in war is to kill the enemy before he kills you. I can't fathom the almost religious zeal with which the use of drones is being opposed.
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Al Jazeera should understand the societies, should understand the culture of the civilisation, should understand the dynamics of the societies, should be part of this understanding; and on the other level, Al Jazeera should concentrate on the margin rather than the centre. It means that Al Jazeera should be close to the public.
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It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean, spare prose. I finally gave up and embraced my baroque tendencies when I wrote the Kushiel series.
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There's a confidence and sense of self that comes with age that I didn't anticipate.
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My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.
