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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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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It is much more fun to write about villains then heroes. The villains are the ones that think out the scheme, and the heroes just kind of come along for the ride.
D. J. MacHale
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I think at one time every drummer wanted to play like Krupa or wanted to win a Gene Krupa drum contest. This is the big inspiration for drummers and naturally it has to be the same way for me.
Buddy Rich
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For as long as I can remember, my mother went to church every single Sunday. She was born and raised in Romania as a person with limited means, and faith was something she could rely on - something that was free.
Dominique Moceanu
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I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties.
Warwick Davis
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Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
George Bernard Shaw