George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
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Those guys were made for me and Muhammad because they come straight in and don't back up but you had to watch out for his punching power but if we could have neutralized that then we would have been fine.
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With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.
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We have two trainers at the polo ground and do a mix of aerobics, gymnastics and stretches before we start riding. As polo players, it's very important for us to keep in shape. We do a bit of yoga and Pilates sometimes, too.
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Usually I like playing other people. I like finding myself through other characters. But when you do cabaret, you are yourself. I think it's the most fun, and I tell you, if somebody had told me that, I would have done it fifteen years earlier than I did.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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Whenever someone says to me, 'Are you for or against Common Core,' the first question I ask is, 'What do you think Common Core is?' You will get a different answer from every single person. You will literally get a different answer.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
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I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
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I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
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If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.
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Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.
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No one in my family is in entertainment. They thought acting was a fun hobby, and when I got a degree, I'd settle down.
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I think I am aggressive, I think I am critical when it's necessary.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
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A boy or girl who has gone through the eight grades should possess a complete, practical education and should have received special training in some specific line of work, fitting him or her to earn a livelihood.
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Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young
