George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.

George Bernard Shaw

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There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn't know how many people would respect it.

Nas
- People
- Game
- Change
Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.

Viggo Mortensen
- People
- World
- Family
On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.

Ingmar Bergman
- People
- World
- Great
I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.

Felix Dennis
- People
- Care
- Poetry
I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.

Patrick Rothfuss
- People
- Up
- World
I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine.

Garrison Keillor