George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.

George Bernard Shaw

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• All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Giving
  • Mad
  • Name

• I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Money
  • Help
  • Mother

• I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Home
  • Play
  • Present

• I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Women
  • Career
  • Thought

• I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Women
  • Pretty
  • Man

• The laptop computer is a workhorse. The tablet is just a display.

  

  Barry Lam
  • Just
  • Computer
  • Laptop

• The Longs event was the first LPGA event that I played in 8 years ago.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Years
  • First
  • Event

• In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Sense

• It could get saturated or monotonous if I would do the same characters again and again. That is why, to save myself from that feeling, I take time out to choose roles that excite me.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Time
  • Why
  • Feeling

• Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Time
  • Music
  • Choice

• I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.

  

  Nancy Travis
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Husband

• I try to do as many different roles as the system will allow me. That's the benefit of not being in a giant blockbuster where you're the lead and you get typecast in that kind of role. I am able to slip in or out of a lot of different parts.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Different
  • Roles
  • System

• I would say issues around human rights - either you're going to take a hard stance, or you're not. You can't borrow money from China the way the U.S. has done and then turn around and say, 'But you've got a human-rights problem.' You can't be half pregnant.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Money
  • Done
  • Problem

• When I see someone for the first time in a while, and they ask, 'How have you been?' or 'What have you been up to?', it's politeness but a bit of a conversation stopper.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Up
  • Time
  • See

• Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.

  

  Otto Rank
  • Wife
  • Neighbor
  • Others

• Oil wells never really run dry. A big company will drain maybe 40% of a field. Pulling out the rest of the oil, which requires an outlay of incrementally more cash per barrel, often proves uneconomical for big companies with big overheads.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Rest
  • Company
  • Oil

• The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Live
  • Education
  • Learning

• I think I am a complete player. I can play well on all the surfaces. For me, the clay might be easiest, but I am not a specialist on clay.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Player
  • Clay
  • Surfaces

• I think that the character that I'm playing now is so fundamentally different than Ally that I haven't I haven't felt like I had to worry about it at all. But I definitely wanted to make a different choice.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Different
  • Character
  • Worry

• People think it’s hard to travel to the airports. 9/11 has made our travel difficult, with the security laws and that. As far as comparing what we do to driving 3,000 miles a week, making fifty bucks a night, sometimes one hundred bucks a night, it’s a lot different. Guaranteed contracts, first class air fare, Hilton hotels in London, Champaign. Waddaya want? What more could you ask for!

  

  Ric Flair
  • People
  • Different
  • Sometimes

• With food, you're the artist; you put the colour in it, you present it to the table and it has the ability to knock out the senses. It can look fabulous, be beautifully presented and smell great and taste good as well.

  

  Anthony Warlow
  • Good
  • Great
  • Food

• I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Free
  • Fear
  • Action

• Pitchers are smart. They know they are much better off if they mix things up and keep you off-balance.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Up
  • Know
  • Balance

• Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Friend
  • Person
  • Enemy