George Bernard Shaw Quotes

No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.

George Bernard Shaw

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• When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.

  

  J. C. Watts
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• They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.

  

  Ed Gillespie
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• I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.

  

  Lana Parrilla
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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.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
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• Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
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• I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Sad
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• Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • People
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• Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Universe

• As much as I love heavy riffs, I like The Eagles, Neil Young, Elton John, Crowded House.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Love
  • House
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• And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Heart
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• Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Time
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• If you stand up for women, then don't bash me.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Up
  • Women
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• I don't know how to put it, but I don't have many friends. All my friends circle was in Madras, and I lost touch with them. But I'm friends with all my directors, and they are very important for me.

  

  Mahesh Babu
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• Lesbians are likely to be drawn to stand-up, if only because it's cheaper to produce and therefore more accessible for women. But the very form of stand-up is masculine.

  

  Kate Clinton
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• Mexico doesn't deserve what has happened to us. A democratic change is urgent, a change that will permit us to stop being a loser country.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Country
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• We have to be able to criticize what we love,Say what we have to say,'Cause if you're not trying to make something better,Then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Trying

• I know there is an eye that watches all of us. There is a judgment that weighs everything we do. And before this great force, which is greater than any government I stand in awe and I kneel in respect and it is to this great judgment that I dedicate this next song, 'Hallelujah'.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • Great
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• Danger plus survival equals fun. -From A Work in Progress

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Progress

• Sometimes it's about less is more. It's about the seed. Thinking about this gigantic tree that you think is so beautiful but it started with this just seed.

  

  Fred Durst Limp Bizkit
  • Thinking
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  • Tree

• I was going to be the head wrangler at a ranch in Wyoming, and the reason I didn't take the job is because I couldn't have my family there - the family had to stay in town. I just wasn't willing to do that.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Family
  • Job
  • Just

• No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Job
  • Earth
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