George Bernard Shaw Quotes
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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I do remember the tour of 'Cats' in Philadelphia. I was 12 and had a stomach bug.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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In 2004, I went onstage for the first time. They put a mike in my hand and pushed me out the door into the crowd. I did the three songs I had recorded and got out. It was the worst day of my life.
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Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.
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Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.
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When the phonies are expelled from their leadership roles and the Republican Party backs a moderate gubernatorial candidate acceptable to the rank and file with proper financing and the intestinal fortitude to fight the good fight, the rank and file will rejoin the fold.
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I was born in Nashville, Tenn., but I have lived in a number of places. In 1937, I moved to Baltimore, Md., where I attended junior high and high school. I lived there for five years before leaving for college.
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.
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I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
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Some movies to me are like vampires – they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
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If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up.
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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
