George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
Quotes to Explore
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What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.
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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
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I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.
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From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.
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Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.
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Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
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I was dressed like Darth Vader. Vader was my man, even with the villainy. He wore all black and had a deep voice; he reminded me of my uncle. I had a cheap mask-cape combo, the kind available at any pharmacy during October.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.
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It is not the function of the leader of government business to discipline members of the executive.
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I meditate on God's life and I read the scriptures. I read something about Him, go through it and spend a lot of time by myself.
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I think the questions on the grit scale about not letting setbacks disappoint you, finishing what you begin, doing things with focus, I think that those are things I would aspire to or hope for for all our children.
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Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.
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My father's family were liquidated during the Cultural Revolution in China because they were landowners. He was the only one to escape. I was born and brought up in Taiwan. But you absorb the trauma. My parents had no sense of security.
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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
