George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I had the talent for it. Those are things I've always just admired - the work of other artists.
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There are two types of people in the world. People who like kids, and people who don't. People who complain about kids screaming on aeroplanes and in restaurants, and those people who love kids and enjoy their energy and enjoy hearing the noise they make and get off on their energy. I am one of those people who happens to love kids.
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
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My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when I was younger, but unfortunately I had to face the fact that I was not really talented!
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Whenever you show up on a set where you haven't been from the beginning - at least myself - I'm kind of quiet. I just watch the politics and how everything unfolds.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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I've fallen over on stage a couple of times, but I've only ever bruised my ego.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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It's better to waste money, than it is to waste time. You can always get more money.
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College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.
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You don't make it anywhere without someone helping you out.
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I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.
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One thing I've learned now is that I should not say when a book is coming out until I'm sure I know.
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I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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I don't think about the media.
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I like to roller skate. I have been roller skating since I was eight.
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OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.
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I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.
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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
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The depressing thing about an Englishman's traditional love of animals is the dishonesty thereof ... Get a barbed hook into the upper lip of a salmon, drag him endlessly around the water until he loses his strength, pull him to the bank, hit him on the head with a stone, and you may well become fisherman of the year. Shoot.the salmon and you'll never be asked again.
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'Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not.
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When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.
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Scratch an Englishman and find a Protestant.
