George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
Patrick Warburton
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
Frances O'Grady
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I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.
Barbara Walters
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
Lamar Alexander
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Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.
Adam Grant
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Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York.
Patrick Ewing
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The underdog winning is the romantic position.
Malcolm Gladwell
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I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.
Walter Dean Myers
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I am really happy to see the number of entrepreneurs in India - not only because of the ideas they have but also because of the passion at which their ideas are put across.
Naveen Jain
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
Edmund Burke
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Well, my husband is supportive of my work, like advocating for dialogue between cultures on YouTube.
Queen Rania of Jordan
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I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.
Edmund Hillary
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
Irina Shayk
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I've been with my husband and friends for so long, I've forgotten what is unappealing to new people.
Olivia Colman
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Most important thought, if you love someone, tell him or her, for you never know what tomorrow may have in store.
Walter Payton
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Our high school didn't have a crew team - we started the crew team.
Cameron Winklevoss
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
Carl Barks
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I work too much to be an appropriate parent. I feel like a bad mom to my dog some days because I'm just not here enough. I just feel like I would do a bad job if I took the time to literally give birth to a kid right now and try and juggle everything I'm doing.
Rachael Ray
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In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.
Mac Davis
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The promise of anyone seeking to be on the federal bench, the Supreme Court in particular, must again be—not to serve as Chief Justice Roberts's “referee” but to do what is necessary to serve that one great overarching value of American democracy: to serve as a constraint on the otherwise overarching tyranny of the majority (and their political allies) for us and future generations.
Barry W. Lynn
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The study titled 'Impact of Immigration on Wages, by Education Level, 1994-2007' found that increased immigration had an effect of lowering wages for earlier immigrants by an average of 4.6 percent. Running counter to popular perception is the finding that for native-born Americans, wages actually increased by 0.6 percent.
Fabrizio Moreira
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Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances.
Madeleine Peyroux
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I learned no detail was too small. It was all about the details.
Brad Grey
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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw