George Bernard Shaw Quotes
The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.
George Bernard Shaw
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
Walter Kirn
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
Bayard Taylor
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My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
Ian Somerhalder
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Few things parallel the bonding that occurs post-performance when congratulatory remarks are awarded, regrets are confessed, and gossip is exchanged.
Kat Edmonson
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Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too.
Saina Nehwal
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
Garry Kasparov
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Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.
Kate Christensen
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'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
Caitriona Balfe
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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
Harry Browne
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When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.
J. J. Abrams
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When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.
Victoria Principal
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Let's face it, Obama is not a hugely popular political figure in the state of Texas.
Wendy Davis
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People who label themselves as 'realists' are usually accurate - they see to the real edge of what they know, understand, or believe. At best, these folks tend to be caring worriers.
Brendon Burchard
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People are fond of that 'crabs in a barrel' mentality, and I'm like, 'No, there needs to be more so we can create more barrels; there doesn't need to be one barrel.'
Omari Hardwick
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People ended up not thinking much of me. They saw me as a bit of a troublemaker. It's important to change people's impressions.
Diego Costa
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Well, you know, that's the problem in America, we're always having elections.
John Cornyn
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I'm not fighting just to fight. I'm fighting to be the world champ.
Dustin Poirier
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The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.
George Bernard Shaw
