George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.
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If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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Honestly, all the sweets and bad stuff on set don't really call to me because I'm working so much. I've trained myself to stay away from sugar.
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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.
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One of my goals is that, at a dinner party some time in the future, someone will say, 'Oh, my nephew is starting a ready-to-wear brand', and 20 people will turn around and say, 'Is he? Can we invest?' in the same way that, now, if you were to say, 'My nephew is starting a mobile app,' everyone would say, 'Oh, smashing! Can I invest?'
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
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I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
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I love love stories, no matter how dark.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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Before I turned vegetarian, I used to often cook seafood or my favourite breakfast of eggs and bacon. Now, I love making pulao or rice with lots of spices and vegetables.
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They're not particular about whether you're playing a flatted fifth or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance to it.
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Whatever anybody believes as long as it doesn't hurt anybody else, it's fair enough, and works, and I think, is real, and matters. I don't happen to have those beliefs, as much, you know, I don't believe in those things.
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I think the last book I cried in was Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I don't shy away from crying, though. I actually really enjoy being moved like that.
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Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
