George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

George Bernard Shaw

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• I adored my mom. I thought she was the best. I loved her very much.

  

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• There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

  

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• In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.

  

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• I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.

  

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• One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

  

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• The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

  

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• The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.

  

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• I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.

  

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• I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.

  

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• I understand that the tendency of foreign countries in recent years has been to establish particularly close relations with one or two others among all the countries which have general relations. In time of peace, they make secret treaties in advance, and in wartime, they aid one another with military provisions and armaments.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Time
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• I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.

  

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• You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • You
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• Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.

  

  Pat Summitt
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• The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Me
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• The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.

  

  Earl Weaver
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• We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!

  

  R. Lee Ermey
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• My original name was Juaquin, and my cousin couldn't pronounce my name right. So he'd just be saying 'Waka! Waka!' So when I was younger, I used to always laugh, then my man Gucci gave me the rest of the name.

  

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• Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Life
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• They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance.

  

  Samuel Beckett
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• I love to dance. I have always been the first on the dance floor, but I'm not teachable. I couldn't learn 'five, six, seven, eight' if my life depended on it.

  

  Sia LSD
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• Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms.

  

  Anton Chekhov
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• Even before the agricultural revolution began in the Fertile Crescent about 10,000 years ago, humans had learned how to work with new technology. Those who could not or would not eventually became priests, politicians, and bureaucrats.

  

  G. Harry Stine
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• Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Reading
  • Mad
  • Gentleman