George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The kitchen is where we deal with the elements of the universe. It is where we come to understand our past and ourselves.
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I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression.
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I'm going to name a name: Janet Evanovich. She writes the same book over and over, and I read every single one of them and eagerly anticipate them.
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Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder.
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I think that there are a lot of elements and events that will make you scared in life and make you not want to sort of show your true self.
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I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.
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There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.
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Making a donation is the ultimate sign of solidarity. Actions speak louder than words.
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You never want to defend a joke. People get to choose whether or not to laugh and whether or not they think something is funny.
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But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No joke - I'd leave meetings crying all the time.
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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
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To me the earth's most explosive and pernicious evil is racism, the inability of God's creatures to live as One, especially in the Western world.
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As the chosen people bore in their features the sign manual of Jehovah, so the division of labour brands the manufacturing workman as the property of capital.
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Nature has become something new. It is ours now, truly. And if our creation devours us, how poetic will that be?
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Science repulses the indefinite.
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Alfred Nobel, 'Aphorisms by Alfred Nobel'. Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014.
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Tiesto is legend. I've been in the studio many times. We did a tour together; I jumped onstage with him, he jumped onstage with me. Still, every time, I have to pinch myself and realize this is the guy who made me start doing what I'm doing right now.
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For those of you looking for your action-packed read, check out 'Red Queen' by Victoria Aveyard and 'Vengeance Road' by Erin Bowman. One's a fantasy and one's a Western, but they both feature strong leading ladies and some harrowing twists!
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Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.
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Repetition creates pattern. If I have a hundred of these, a hundred of those, it doesn't make any difference what these and those are. If I can repeat anything, I have the possibility of a pattern from hickory nuts and chicken eggs, shards of glass, branches. It doesn't make any difference.
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We ought to start running the government like a private-sector business. I have that ability as CEO of our companies. I have line item vetoes, and if I didn't, we'd probably be out of business by now.
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The idea was that we would decide the order when we looked at the proofs. I remember Brion Gysin saying "Well, why change it? It's perfect the way it is, the way it came from the printer." Made one major change, that is, the first chapter that came from the printers, which would be the beginning, we moved to the end. The first chapter became the last chapter. There's no actual cutups in Naked Lunch.
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If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything?
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I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.
