George Bernard Shaw Quotes
I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.
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I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.
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This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.
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I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.
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I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.
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Work is both my living and my pleasure.
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My children and my husband make me smile. My work makes me smile.
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While I was at Cornell in engineering, I was an engineering co-op student, and that turned out to be very valuable because we'd go out every other term to work in industry and have that close association with industry.
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I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.
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It's fairness to say those who work hard, get up in the morning, cut their cloth - in other words 'we can only afford to have one or two children because we don't earn enough'. They pay their taxes and they want to know that the same kind of decision-making is taking place for those on benefits.
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I like to work hard and complete my films one after the other.
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I met Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu years ago during my college days, and I was in charge of international promotion of this movie festival he was invited to as part of the jury, and then he saw my work on a short film that was directed by a friend of mine.
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As Mayor of San Francisco, I will work hard to ensure that, in the event of natural or man-made disasters, San Franciscans are prepared and our City is protected.
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So, I am independently well-off and don't have to do anything, but I still do. I write books, lecture around the world, work with scientists and governments.
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This acting was very hard work.
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Golf is my boyfriend right now.
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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
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It is quite certain that in seeing the people who treat us so well despite their own misfortune, we are more obliged than ever to work hard for their happiness. The king seems to understand this truth; as for myself, I know that in my whole life (even if I live for a hundred years) I shall never forget the day of the coronation.
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I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds..
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White communities - and I exempt poor white communities from this - have power over their representation. White people have the ability to define themselves, to exert their agency in a way that they get to be believed. No one believes black people. No one. Until a white person vouches for them.
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There are no wishy-washy astronauts. You don't get up there by being uncaring and blase. And whatever gave you the sense of tenacity and purpose to get that far in life is absolutely reaffirmed and deepened by the experience itself.
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I grew up in the projects. You have no choice but to fight. My jokes used to get me in fights.
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Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.
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And of course, the musician - if he's serious - always answers: My last album is my best, otherwise I wouldn't have done it.
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I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.
