George Bernard Shaw Quotes

I ask you, what am I? I’m one of the undeserving poor: thats what I am. Think of what that means to a man.

George Bernard Shaw

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• Man
• Poor
• Undeserving

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• You really are being quite foolish to smoke.

  

  Iain Glen
  • You
  • Foolish
  • Smoke

• The first 'Monsters, Inc.' represents starting at Pixar for me, I have a special place in my heart for it. So to be able to tell a story with those ideas is an honor.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Heart
  • Ideas
  • Honor

• With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Focus
  • Style
  • Budget

• Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Women
  • Home
  • Reason

• In order to change the conversation about Muslims in American media, we need a diverse, unified movement of people who are willing to take a stand against anti-Muslim bias.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • American
  • Change

• There were five children in my family, and arguing was how we used to entertain ourselves.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Children
  • Family
  • Arguing

• I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Family
  • Way
  • Wife

• I did a shoot with massive iguanas in Costa Rica when I was modeling back then. They were like little dinosaurs, and they sat right across my arms and by my face. The guy told me not to make any sudden movements because they had enormous claws. The guy said he would rip my skin if he attacked.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Said

• I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Stupid
  • Smart
  • Realize

• My mom could be pretty strict.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Pretty
  • Mom
  • Strict

• I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.

  

  Aaliyah
  • People
  • Good
  • Remember

• A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • School
  • America
  • Change

• I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Money
  • Free
  • Model

• I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Work
  • Music
  • Collaboration

• I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Hope
  • Wish
  • Sex

• My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Mother
  • House
  • Child

• I always say, as an actress, I get to portray the human condition, but as an activist, I get to change the human condition.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Change
  • Always
  • Human

• I'm a Christian guy, and when it comes to my priorities, it's the utmost. For me, just to calm myself down, to keep my perspective when I'm playing, to not make too big a deal of it... that's where I go to. The peace that comes with that allows me to play free golf.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Guy
  • Free
  • Me

• Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Good
  • Learning
  • Brain

• Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Think
  • Want
  • Smile

• Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Up
  • You
  • See

• This everyday world affects the way art is created as much as it conditions its response.

  

  Allan Kaprow
  • World
  • Art
  • Affects

• If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Remember
  • Law
  • Fall

• I ask you, what am I? I’m one of the undeserving poor: thats what I am. Think of what that means to a man.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Think
  • Man
  • Poor