George Bernard Shaw Quotes
My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.
Quotes to Explore
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I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
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Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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I would play my Dungeons and Dragons songs and watch people's eyes glaze over, and then I would start joking around between songs, and all of a sudden people were lighting up and engaging.
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As a woman, as a Jew, as a lesbian, as a labor leader in a time of great anti-union animus, I know that other people project their biases on me. But it is nothing like the experience of our African-American brothers and sisters, especially black and brown men and boys.
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Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their fathers tried to pass down - like unquestioning respect for authority even when that might mean killing and dying for questionable or unjust causes such as the Vietnam War.
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If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one like a seed pod, or you could buy one that doubles as both a bookcase and a coffin. During your life, you stand it in your living room, and then after you die, the books are taken out and your body put in their place and the whole thing buried.
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Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
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I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.
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I think social media, it in a way forces companies to be more authentic or more transparent because it gives a voice to the consumer and a reach to the consumer that they didn't have before.
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I never really planned a career. I've tried to avoid it. I've tried to do this stuff I felt for, the stuff I like. So, I've just been meeting these fantastic directors who've offered me a variation of different parts and different films.
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The more you believe that you deserve healthy love, the more you will conquer and attract.
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I don't intend to die.
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It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.
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Everybody is smarter from outside of the court.
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Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.
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I thought our bench was a huge lift. That's becoming a good basketball team ' every game you got different guys stepping up.
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My aim over the next few months is that I have a lot of points to defend in Miami and Hamburg, after that I can set my sights on No. 1.
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My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.
