George Bernard Shaw Quotes

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

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• Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.

  

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• In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

  

  Narendra Modi
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• I hope our people hold tight to the notion that we do not have to be a fear-ridden country focused on restrictions, but rather that we remain the land of the free and home of the brave.

  

  Taya Kyle
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• With my victory, I must always remember that I glorify God.

  

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• Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.

  

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• Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.

  

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• I think I've slayed my long jump demons.

  

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• We're all idealistic when young.

  

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• I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

  

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• So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.

  

  Jackie Cooper
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• I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.

  

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• I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

  

  Malorie Blackman
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• Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.

  

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• When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.

  

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• As my other obligations are beginning to take an inordinate amount of time, I have asked to step down as WMG's board chairman, effective January 31, 2012. However, I will remain a director of the company and in that way, continue my association with Warner Music and its extraordinary people.

  

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• Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.

  

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• Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.

  

  Rachel Roy
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• When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.

  

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• As a member of a competitive team, you want to make sure you have yourself ready to play. You don't control anything but what you do.

  

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• Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it.

  

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• I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.

  

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• Government research has to go through peer review.

  

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• I remember every goal I've scored!

  

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• We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
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