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 always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.
Harold Ramis
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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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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
Ted Turner
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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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Wickets are like wives. You never know what to expect from them.
Navjot Singh Sidhu
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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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I don't want to be 45 competing with 20-year-olds, running to go get Botox. I want to be an expressive actor hired for the age that I am, portraying women who are my age: 40. I'm just hoping I can find some of those roles to play. Otherwise, I have to find something else.
Debi Mazar
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I was born and trained to communicate music, just as the sons were born and trained to hunt, and I was lucky to have grown up in Hungary, a country that lives and breathes music-that has a passionate belief in the power of music as a celebration of life.
Georg Solti
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The force of mind is only as great as its expression; its depth only as deep as its power to expand and lose itself.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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It's a great opportunity for me and hopefully a great opportunity for the state of Pennsylvania to make some changes.
Lynn Swann
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We can't all wake up and know everything.
Franchesca Ramsey
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Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
George Bernard Shaw