George Bernard Shaw Quotes

The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.

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The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.
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My father was a lawyer.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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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'm less interested in how people are following each other and more interested in how they are following topics and tweets themselves. People are following more key words and concepts and more ideas and acting on those rather than individuals or organizations.
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I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
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I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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No one has ever raised capital because their pitch deck was pretty. A lot of people have raised capital because they were over-prepared, knew where their business was going, and were able to articulate that through a pitch alongside a pitch deck.
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I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.
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I'm very conscious of... I don't feel like a star.
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If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
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If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.
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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
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When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
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It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.
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To captivate our varied and worldwide audience of all ages, the nature and treatment of the fairy tale, the legend, the myth have to be elementary, simple. Good and evil, the antagonists of all great drama in some guise, must be believably personalized. The moral ideals common to all humanity must be upheld. The victories must not be too easy. Strife to test valor is still and will always be the basic ingredient of the animated tale, as of all screen entertainments.
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It’s one thing to see yourself going across the ticker…But to take someone else down, that’s another. I really can’t even explain that pain.
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The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.