George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.
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It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.
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In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.
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We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.
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I just write mechanical things.
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I like to wear things that are daring but also not seem too avant-garde.
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We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.
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I've done a lot of things that I regret.
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I'm getting to be a real pro at coming into things midstream and trying to catch up.
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My favorite word was a word James Lapine used repeatedly in 'Sunday in the Park with George,' which was the word 'connect.' All I want to do is connect.
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I don't let things go unless I'm ready for them to go.
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Men are separated by so many petty things.
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The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
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I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.
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My parents always taught me never to take anything for granted because it can be taken away from you like that, especially when it comes to looks. I could get into a car crash tomorrow and disfigure my face. So I have to stay grounded.
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I never set out to do this; I never set out to say, 'Can I break this record?' Then all of a sudden, the preparations made for the celebration put pressure on me. I said, 'Okay, I have to get there.' After 2,130, there was sort of a realization it was a foregone conclusion you're going to play tomorrow.
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You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year.
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What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed.
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Tagliatelle comes from the word tagliare, meaning 'to cut.' Tagliolini are simply thinly cut tagliatelle.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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"What can I offer you that will make you happier about how you should feel about who Angelina Jolie is?" I think that's a very strange desire to know those things. And yet I have it, with musicians in particular. I'm desperate to know what Micah P. Hinson is like or Julian Casablancas. Philip Seymour Hoffman made me feel like that.
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The fabulous side of Taboo was dressing up and dancing like no one was watching you. There were no rules. You had Jeffrey Hinton playing every kind of music. It was like going back to when I used to deejay at Planet in '79, where you'd mix in nutty things like hip-hop or reggae or The Sound of Music 1965 or other film soundtracks - whatever.
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Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an original feeling for truth, which, after a long course of silent cultivation, suddenly flashes out into fruitful knowledge.
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Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.
