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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For the planet's sake, I hope we have bird flu or some other thing that will reduce the population, because otherwise we're doomed.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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I would hope that Europe always has a privileged relationship with the United States. The alternatives are not attractive.
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There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.
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Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.
