George Bernard Shaw Quotes
It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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'I can't get no satisfaction,' in political terms, has haunted Hungarian politics for 20 years.
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Diving has been in the game for years. Probably the coverage the game gets now, with all the cameras around, it gets highlighted a bit more. But it hasn't got any worse.
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I boxed 15 years in a club.
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I'm a much healthier eater and I've lost quite a bit of weight over the years.
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Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.
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I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.
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I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
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The navigation of our inland waters has for years been sought in vain by foreign countries, and if we grant the privilege to Russia, other States will be guided in their demands by her example.
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.
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I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.
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In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.
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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
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Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.
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When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.
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Over the years, so many exceptions and amendments were made to China's one-child policy that it was hard to pinpoint a moment to pronounce it dead.
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No one in USAID embodied the spirit of compassion and brotherhood that underpins our efforts more than Larry Foley.
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To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
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It is through Christianity that Judaism has really conquered the world. Christianity is the masterpiece of Judaism.
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It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.
