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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Words that weep and tears that speak.
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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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O sweet clean earth, from whom the green blade cometh!When we are dead, my best belovèd and I,Close well above us, that we may rest forever,Sending up grass and blossoms to the sky.
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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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Dancing inspires my music. Having your girlfriends all together and just being free and happy.
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The lure in art collecting and its financial rewards, not counting for a moment its aesthetic, cultural and intellectual rewards, is like the trust in paper money: it makes no sense when you really think about it. New artistic images are so vulnerable to opinion that it wouldn't take much more than a whim for a small group of collectors to decide that a contemporary artist was not so wonderful anymore, was so last year.
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A gentleman is ashamed to let his words outrun his deeds.
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Your kids have these big emotions they can't put into words.
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I consider myself absolutely a character actor, and that's what I want as a career. I don't need to be the lead star or any of that, as long as I'm doing stuff that I'm proud of, really.
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Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap...
