George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
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Now that I've achieved my goal to win the belt, I want to be the best of all times. I want to be remembered as the lightweight with most title defenses.
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All fame is is having people you don't know coming up to you and saying, 'Hello.' I'm always polite and people are always nice, but it's weird.
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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
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When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'
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Lonely women destroy themselves; lonely men threaten the world.
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We live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader.
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Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.
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For me, the most important thing is running a good clubhouse. The X's and the O's – you sit up in the stands and, for the most part, a lot of fans go to the game and they know what's going to happen. You're going to hit and run, steal, put a pitcher in, take a pitcher out.
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I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.
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For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.
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I have no disciple. I am the servant of the servant of Rama.
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Art is ..the mysterious expression of the mysterious..
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The one thing that would utterly destroy the new capitalism is the serious practice of deferred gratification.
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A good traveler is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from.
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Moms that get evicted are depressed and have higher rates of depressive symptoms two years later. That has to affect their interactions with their kids and their sense of happiness. You add all that together, and it's just really obvious to me that eviction is a cause, not just a condition, of poverty.
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Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
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As a child growing up in World War II, I was very moved and stirred by what was going on, but I distanced myself from history. I regarded history as just one more subject.
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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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I want to be evil! I did play Lady Macbeth on stage to Alec Baldwin's Macbeth back in New York in 1998. But I've played a lot of characters who are so righteous and understanding. I don't want to be a goody-goody two-shoes all the time.
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When I was young," I say, beginning with the most painful words an old man knows.
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It just kills me when these girls look at magazines and wish they could look like that. I try to tell them, 'Nobody looks like that. Everything's airbrushed.'
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Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap...
