George Bernard Shaw Quotes
I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.
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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
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I beat Diaz, Pettis, Ben Henderson, Cerrone, and I earned it, man. I earned my title.
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Go West, young man.
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No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
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This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.
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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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A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.
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Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
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A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.
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I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
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Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that. The man was tired. He was tired.
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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
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I am a common man. Why do I need security?
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I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.
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A little jewellery on a man is OK, although he should never wear too much. Every man should always have a great watch.
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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
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Like the Negro League players, I traveled through the segregated south as a young man. Because I was black, I was denied service at many restaurants and could only drink from water fountains marked 'Colored.' When I went to the movies, I would have to sit in the Colored balcony.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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In May 1961, South Africa was to be declared a Nationalist Republic. There was a white referendum, but no African was consulted.
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I'm used to working with neglect and misunderstanding, so this has been really challenging. It's a different psychic realm. The Lion did not land easily here.
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There were times when depression, anxiety, whatever, would keep me from writing. I still get depressed and anxious, but I just don't let it stop me. I've just learned to move it to one side if I want to work.
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I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.
