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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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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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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Walking into the studio making 'Scared Hearts Club,' it was important for us as artists to write a joyful record, but using joy as a weapon because joy is the best weapon against oppression; it's the best weapon against depression.
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Dan Radcliffe and Rupert Grint to me are like a pair of warm-hearted brothers.
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I don't know; it's hard for me to understand people that want to get out there and protest on the first day we elect a new guy.
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Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.
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Sometimes, I feel like my lyrics meander a little bit, and our songs are so big I need to write more words than are necessary.
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Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate.
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There was one moment where they were riding their little ponies in Scotland, and Stella said to me: 'Dad! You're Paul McCartney, aren't you?' 'Yes darling, but I'm Daddy really'.
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Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap...
