George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
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Body experience... is the centre of creation.
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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I've always been fond of acoustic music.
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Through the ages, from the beginning of time, I'm certain man has covered woman's face with masks. They are, however, his masks, not hers.
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I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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When there was a fight in school, because I was the tall one, the teachers would say, 'I know you were there. I could see you.'
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We got to think of other ways to help these kids out because there's a lot of kids who get hurt in college and then don't make it to the NFL and don't have insurance, and their entire lives are changed when they put their bodies on the line for their school.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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I take my work seriously.
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Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests; build the economy from the middle out, not the top down.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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The hateful thing about most hotels nowadays is that they only have duvets. I hate duvets.
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The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.
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You put a lot of pressure on your defenders to be able to hold the fort when you go forward.
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As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.
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I have to believe there's redemption in the darkest of circumstances; otherwise it's too bleak for me.
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That's my running mate right there, ... Temeka had a great rookie year, and she's only going to get better. We're all going to get better. I love this organization, and I think we have a bright future.
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We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in its purity; we do not remain two moments in the same state. Our affections as well as bodies, are in a perpetual flux.
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Your sanity is harder to get back than money or contacts. You are the magic. You are the art. You can't lose that.
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Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.
