George Bernard Shaw Quotes
It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.
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Every year is pressure. You need to put in on yourself to go out and perform.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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As biologists, we contemplate with admiration and awe the wondrous array of sophisticated cell interactions and recognitions evolved in the T cell immune system, which must be a model for other similarly complex biological systems of highly differentiated organisms.
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I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.
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My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.
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I was just making music in my bedroom. I never wanted to be onstage.
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I don't think that when I'm acting I feel like I lose myself to it, but that sense of losing, that sense of discomfort, well, I guess maybe that comes a bit! It's about redefining what 'uncomfortable' means for you.
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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
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My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He was a fighter. By the time he was ready to die he wasn't able to die in the way that he wanted to, which seemed an outrage to me.
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I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.
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We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
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What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?
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Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.
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With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
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When you have very lax parents, you tend to get more conservative kids.
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The national unity government will need to implement a program that brings all Iraqis together, builds a happy future for the people of Iraq, and gets Iraq to stand on its own feet.
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I like a woman who takes care of herself – it says something about the way she'll care for me.
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.
