George Bernard Shaw Quotes
It is not the sale of my soul that troubles me: I have sold it too often to care about that. I have sold it for a professorship. I have sold it for an income. … What is all human conduct but the daily and hourly sale of our souls for trifles?
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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
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We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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I came out of what we romance writers call The Romance Ghetto, because we get so little respect.
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Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?
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I am extremely privileged to serve Rhode Island in the United States Senate, and that is my only goal and aspiration.
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Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.
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Stand-up is successful if they laugh. It's unsuccessful if they don't laugh.
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In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.
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Drunkards of summer are quite as frequent as Drunkards of wine.
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It is not the sale of my soul that troubles me: I have sold it too often to care about that. I have sold it for a professorship. I have sold it for an income. … What is all human conduct but the daily and hourly sale of our souls for trifles?
