George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.

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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
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The student will try to defy the master. Always.
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I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
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In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.
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My job as the actress playing Hanna Schmitz, as the actress playing any part, is to understand the character, and to ultimately love the character. And I did love Hanna, absolutely, because I understood her as profoundly as I did at the end of the day.
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Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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I make images from things I find serendipitously. I don't know what it is, but I know it when I see it. It could be from a newspaper, on the street. It could be something I fell over.
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I think if you are creative then it's an unstoppable thing. It just keeps coming throughout your entire life.
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I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world.
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I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.
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Sometimes I become attached to a character because I've gotten to explore him for so long, like in the case of Ben, but sometimes I fall in love with a throwaway character who exists for only one scene in a video game like The Drunken Villager in 'Diablo III' or Sandal in 'Dragon Age.'
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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I strongly believe that good books are the best home accessory.
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Social Security is fundamentally strong.
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My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound - the expression of loneliness. That's what it's all about.
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You must live fully in the now to make your dreams come true.
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I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx.
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Singapura means lion-city; prehistoric, myopic, Sanskrit-speaking visitors having spotted a mangy tiger or two in the mangroves. Sly Malays sometimes call it Singa pura-pura, which means ‘pretending to be a lion’….It is a profoundly provincial town pretending to be a metropolis.
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Human beings-any one of us, and our species as a whole-are not all-important, not at the center of the world. That is the one essential piece of information, the one great secret, offered by any encounter with the woods or the mountains or the ocean or any wilderness or chunk of nature or patch of night sky.
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Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.