George Bernard Shaw Quotes
The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.
Quotes to Explore
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I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
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When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.
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I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
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A lot of people don't like me.
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Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
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If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.
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I enjoy going for brunch at Granger & Co. in Notting Hill and having my all-time favourite: poached eggs and avocado on toast. I love the aesthetic of the space and the fresh, modern approach in the dishes.
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Somewhere in the back of their minds, hosts and guests alike know that the dinner party is a source of untold irritation, and that even the dullest evening spent watching television is preferable.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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What is it that you like doing? If you don't like it, get out of it, because you'll be lousy at it. You don't have to stay with a job for the rest of your life, because if you don't like it you'll never be successful in it.
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Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege.
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The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.
