George Bernard Shaw Quotes
What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.
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Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.
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Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
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My candidacy is one that fits the district and fits the Mick Mulvaney-Jim DeMint philosophy.
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A cat is never vulgar.
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Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.
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I'm into my grime, hip-hop, dance, and house music.
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I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.
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'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary.
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We had a great dramatic society in school, and that's where I first got exposure both as an actor and director.
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It is a pleasure to play under Jose Mourinho, and everything is OK. I learn every day. He is a normal coach. He speaks a lot with the players. I like it when the manager speaks a lot with you because it gives you confidence.
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It was a difficult second record. I had moments where I couldn't write; had moments where I was writing lots. It was just a massive learning process for me.
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I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.
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I had no ambition to go to America and be in a TV show. It's not like I've rejected something or decided that I've found something better. Your life just takes you off in strange and different directions.
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I really love it in Belfast. I always stay in the most bombed hotel, the Europa!
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I think we all have different moods - a nerd one day and cool the next. I think everyone has an inner geek, and I know I definitely do.
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Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.
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I am making myself less frequent in the Lady World than I have been. I must keep up my dignity, or rather, I must attend more to politics and less to love.
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I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.
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Our history shows that what we must do is assert domination over the machine, to guide it so that it works for the values of our choice.
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As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.
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As for my memory, I have a particularly good one. I never keep any record of my investigations or experiments. My memory files all these things away conveniently and reliably. I should say, though, that I didn’t cumber it up with a lot of useless matter.
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Real hunger is when one man regards another man as something to eat.
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This is not that, and that is certainly not this, and at the same time an oyster stew is not stewed, and although they are made of the same things and even cooked almost the same way, an oyster soup should never be called a stew, nor stew soup.
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What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.
