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.George Bernard Shaw
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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.
Edith Pearlman -
Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.
Edgar Bergen -
When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.
Olivia Wilde -
A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
Ida Tarbell -
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.
Randi Weingarten
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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.
Jackson Katz -
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.
Laura Wade -
I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.
Kate Bush -
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.
Padmasree Warrior -
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.
Mads Mikkelsen -
The more you believe that you deserve healthy love, the more you will conquer and attract.
Karen Salmansohn
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I don't intend to die.
Jack Kent Cooke -
It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.
Edmund Barton -
Everybody is smarter from outside of the court.
Marat Safin -
Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.
Warren Buffett -
I traveled to Morocco once, and I only saw one television when I was there, but I did go into this dirt cave and I saw this kid chopping tomatoes and pita, and he had a picture on the wall of Jean-Claude Van Damme holding a gun. That connected with him on the other side of the world, so no wonder these big movies are made - they have a mass appeal.
Parker Posey -
My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.
Beau Bridges
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All of these things mean everything to me because without that I wouldn't be standing here without arts education, and it's something that is universal -- and vaguely political, but not really.
Mick Fleetwood Fleetwood Mac -
At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God’s hand until we learn to hear Him.
Oswald Chambers -
I don't have a car in Manhattan because you have to choose between a car and an apartment. It's that expensive.
Adam Ferrara -
Sorcery works against Nature, magic works with it.
Avram Davidson -
God created us with an overwhelming desire to soar. Our desire to develop and use every ounce of potential He's placed in us is not egotistical. He designed us to be tremendously productive and "to mount up with wings like eagles," realistically dreaming of what He can do with our potential.
Carol Kent -
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.
George Bernard Shaw