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.
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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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.
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With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.
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Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.
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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.
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There were five children in my family, and arguing was how we used to entertain ourselves.
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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.
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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.
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I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
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My mom could be pretty strict.
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I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.
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A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.
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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.
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I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
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I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
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With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.
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My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.
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I often have the impression that the book I've just finished isn't satisfied: that it rejects me because I haven't successfully completed it. Because there is no going back, I'm forced to begin a new book so I can finally complete the previous one.
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You took a walk on a Sunday afternoon and came to a nice neighborhood, very refined. You saw a small one of these trees through the iron gate leading to someone's yard and you knew that soon that section of Brooklyn would get to be a tenement district. The tree knew. It came there first. Afterwards, poor foreigners seeped in and the quiet old brownstone houses were hacked up into flats, feather beds were pushed out on the window sills to air and the Tree of Heaven flourished. That was the kind of tree it was. It liked poor people.
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Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings.
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It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.
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Teachers alone can't educate young people.
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If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.
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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.
