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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People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.
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I so miss musical theater. Secretly, I'm in awe of Broadway performers.
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In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
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No words can describe the personal liberation that heading seaward bestows upon me. In this aquatic realm, no man or woman is subject to the petty decrees of social bureaucracy.
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If, on a rare occasion, it is necessary to speak with some severity in order to make a grievous crime felt, we should always, at the conclusion of the rebuke, add some kind words. We must heal wounds, as the Samaritan did, with wine and oil. But as oil floats above all other liquors, so meekness should predominate in all our actions.
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Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap...
