George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
Edmund Burke
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees
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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.
Ian Rankin
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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.
Laura Linney
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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.
Fat Joe
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
Paddy Ashdown
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
Wayne Rogers
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
Victor LaValle
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
Salman Rushdie
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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.
P. J. O'Rourke
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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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.
Taylor Schilling
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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
Manuel Puig
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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.
Maeve Binchy
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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?'
Natalie Massenet
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
Samuel Johnson
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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!
Victor Hugo
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I love love stories, no matter how dark.
Abbie Cornish
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When writing about historical characters I try to be as accurate as possible, and in particular not to misrepresent the view they held. With a real historical figure you have to be fair, and this is not an obligation you have in dealing with your own creations, so it is quite different.
Pat Barker
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When people get their mind made up about something, then it's: 'Don't bother me with facts.' They've got their minds made up and dismiss you out of hand. Some people don't even give you a fair hearing.
Frank Peretti
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I'm surprised that we've gotten to a point where we don't put our country first and put our party first.
Jon Huntsman, Jr.
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I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
H. P. Lovecraft
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My daughter's the greatest thing that's happened to me in my life and she turned me into a more responsible man, as opposed to just someone who's a perpetual teenager, thinking you're a man when you're not.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
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Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
George Bernard Shaw