George Bernard Shaw Quotes

In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.

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• I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Up
  • Perfect
  • Morning

• Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Science
  • You
  • Fiction

• I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Want
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• To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Life
  • Way
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• The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Future
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• The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Power
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• Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Fall
  • Woman
  • Grace

• My dream date is a tall, dark, handsome, blue eyed man with a bubble butt who will whisk me away to Paris in a hot air balloon to wine me, dine me and.

  

  Karen McDougal
  • Dream
  • Man
  • Dark

• Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.

  

  Larry Page
  • People
  • Power
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• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.

  

  Kate Christensen
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• I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.

  

  Sam Phillips
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• I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • Time
  • Experience
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• Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • America
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• The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.

  

  Rainn Wilson
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• If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.

  

  Olivier Martinez
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• Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.

  

  Pat Williams
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• New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Why
  • Business
  • Character

• I mean, I had probably an illusion of being the wife that, you know, I wanted to create a home. I wanted to have children. I wanted him to be a husband. It was never going to be that way. It couldn't be that way.

  

  Priscilla Presley
  • Children
  • Home
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• 'Europe '72' came out right around the time that I started going to see the Dead, and it had a huge impression on me.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
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• I just moved onto Queen West, after 20 years in Cabbagetown. The whole area around Trinity-Bellwoods is one of the juiciest in Toronto - all kinds of people to watch, dogs to pat, food to eat, galleries to check out. And the walk home from CBC delivers some of the most interesting window-shopping in town.

  

  Andy Barrie
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  • Interesting
  • Galleries

• Being on stage was all about the palpable energy of a rapt audience hopefully buying into a life onstage. The immediate connection with the audience was the best part for me. The camera is not as fun, but your work is preserved forever. There's immortality to it.

  

  David Walton
  • Life
  • Work
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• I think creativity is a capability of human being. When we're born, we're - all of us has this capability. But part of us forget to use it.

  

  Erno Rubik
  • Creativity
  • Forget
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• In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
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