George Bernard Shaw Quotes
If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.
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All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
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I'm very proud to be British, and my brand is British.
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Marriage is traditionally old-school in many respects. It is highly antiquated, and, that being said, beautiful.
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You can not only do great things for an urban core by moving your employee base there, you're also going to be a better business.
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We just compare our lifestyle to movies so you can relate to them. When I say, 'I bought a carpet from Aladdin so I could finesse and do magic,' that means I had to get me a new whip or I had to get me something in disguise to work my magic, to finesse, to get out of here.
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The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.
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The world is a penal institution.
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Everyday I meet folks who show me how to look at challenges differently.
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At 'Vogue,' I was responsible for a lot of production work, and production work is highly detailed, and you have to be very resourceful to fit a square peg into a round hole. I learned to push the envelope when it comes to asking questions or making requests.
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The input of Idle No More has been a lightning rod for people who were already thinking this way. We are reaching clarities on bigger issues like fracking and GMOs and climate change.
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I've had a lot of fun, and when I talk to kids in journalism schools, I say, look, I know what the journalism teachers tell you that this is a great way to perform public service and all that, but I say the main reason, if you decide what you want to do is be a reporter, the main reason you want to do it is because it's just so much fun.
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It's important to be successful enough to be able to keep doing what you love.
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I had no acting background in my family and no experience of theatre. I hadn't even been in a school play.
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No pills, not even aspirin, and certainly no supplements ever enter my mouth - everything I need comes from my fish and vegetarian diet, which incorporates many different kinds of fruit and vegetables every week.
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I like to feel and understand people's contentment with what I've done.
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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.
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The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them.
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Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner.
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If I were a gambling man I would put all my money on there not being anything other than this universe.
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The Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in ... Guys would drink and fight one another like circle saws. Bottles would come flying over the bandstand like crazy and there was lots of plain common shooting and cutting. But somehow all that jive didn't faze me at all. I was so happy to have some place to blow my horn.
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When I was in college I thought of making up a fictive artist and giving him a name and a body of work. Eventually I came around to the idea of using my own name, which had this strange distancing effect, similar to using a found object. Being a Turk was quite interesting because in a sense it was like being a foreigner.
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If you get into emotions, then it disturbs your work. Sometimes you focus on what's less important and not the main thing.
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If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.
