George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for.
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I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.
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I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.
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Any mechanism that will ensure benefits to consumer, any mechanism that will ensure that we do not waste food grains, any mechanism that helps the poorest of the poor is a welcome step.
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I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.
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I had no ambition to go to America and be in a TV show. It's not like I've rejected something or decided that I've found something better. Your life just takes you off in strange and different directions.
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Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama.
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I'm always working. I work wherever I am.
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I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.
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Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.
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In order to get what you want, you must first decide what you want. Most people really foul up at this crucial first step because they simply can't see how it's possible to get what they want, so they don't even let themselves want it.
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I am very shy with people I don't know.
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Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence.
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A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
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I'm nobody's child.You're mine now. Not my child, but mine, to miss you when you go, to look out for you, to hope you'll be careful.
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There are a lot of people out there who are just waiting that we fail. They brought up the theory that we're one-hit wonders and they want us to fall flat on our noses, just to prove them right.
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It is true that we do not recognize greatness among us. Our measurements of importance are generally faulty and speak mainly to the superficialities of life, e.g., where one lives, the type of clothing one wears, the cars one drives, to the number of bodyguards that one employs to carry bags and open and close doors.
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You’d be surprised at the things that look great on the outside but are dysfunctional on the inside. Be sure to function as good as you look
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Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention.
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The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.
