George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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When you mess up publicly, it can be difficult to get vulnerable again or to put yourself out there.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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What I always say to people is dress from the feet up. If you don't normally wear colour, try some colour on your feet; it's the place, I think you can have fun and update your outfit.
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If you don't shop smart, you get a little trendy.
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I'm a Ronald Reagan conservative, I'm an economic conservative, I'm strong military. But I also voice and speak and work hard on the social issues.
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I just wear what I like, and lots of it is British.
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I was delivering papers when I was, like, 10 or 11, and I'd always daydream about being an artist as a full-time thing.
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I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
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When the element of conversion with reference to a standard is eliminated from life, what remains is the irresponsible quest for thrills.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds; but Impudence knows none.
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No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.
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Class instinct is subjective and spontaneous. ... To arrive at proletarian class positions, the class instinct of proletarians only needs to be educated; the class instinct of the petty bourgeoisie, and hence of intellectuals, has, on the contrary, to be revolutionized.
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La principale difficulté pour vulgariser la physique quantique, c'est qu'on ne sait pas très bien comment en fabriquer des images dans notre monde. C'est en ce sens qu'elle est vraiment contre-intuitive.
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There are three successive states of morality answering to the three principal stages of human life; the personal, the domestic, and the social stage.
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Exxon, one of the companies that has spent tens of millions of dollars denying climate change, denying any responsibility to deal with, taking government subsidies on a massive scale, now their ads are all about, 'Oh, we want a clean future. We're looking at clean energy and all that stuff.'
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I was well beaten myself, and I am better for it.
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Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious.
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I never want to be too mean with my songs, but with 'I Hope It Rains' it was definitely somewhere in the middle with being sassy but also a little class in there as well. It was a good blend for me and who I want to be perceived as an artist.
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Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
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Improvisation is terribly haphazard.
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The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.
