George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I grew up playing basketball and baseball. I've always been active because my dad played professional football, so sports and working out have always been a part of my life.
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I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.
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Faith is personal if it's to be real.
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I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.
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Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times.
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People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
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It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.
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Contraception is a couple's issue.
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I don't think that left to its own devices, capitalism moves along smoothly and everyone gets treated fairly in the process. Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child.
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I've got a lot that I want to do, so I would like to expand my empire, for sure. I love it.
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Using medicine in the service of cosmesis is generally bad for patients, bad for doctors, and bad for democracy. The only exceptions are when we know the intervention will actually reduce suffering, as with a primary cleft lip repair.
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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
