George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
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Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.
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I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and off.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out.
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I'm unemployable in any other capacity.
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I'm not really a pianist.
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I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
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Maddie Ziegler is the most amazing dancer I've ever seen, and I'm so obsessed with her. I was obsessed with her even before she did her first Sia video.
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I would have 55 dogs if I could. I'm hoping one day to open my own shelter.
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What does dating mean?
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I like the name Atomic Kitten. It's so great.
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I'm super organized, but a horrible house cleaner.
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I will play my part by singing the spirit into every open heart.
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Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.
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I love dressing up. It's the best part of being a girl, I think.
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I will forever be grateful to my oncologist for opening the door and saying, 'Damn it, the tumor's 10 percent bigger,' before he even said hello.
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If you try to force yourself into change, then change will never stick.
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Failure is not a disgrace if you have sincerely done your best.
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What has no substance can penetrate what has no opening.
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Change can be frightening, and the temptation is often to resist it. But change almost always provides opportunities - to learn new things, to rethink tired processes, and to improve the way we work.
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A lot of my music is just self-observation. Like telling you, "Oh man. What did I just do? How much did I just pay for this chain? Why did I do that? Wait a minute." Let me talk about that. Or like, the temptation. Let me talk about that. Let me observe myself.
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Knowing has two poles, and they are always poles apart: carnal knowing, the laying on of hands, the hanging of the fact by head or heels, the measurement of mass and motion, the calibration of brutal blows, the counting of supplies; and spiritual knowing, invisibly felt by the inside self, who is but a fought-over field of distraction, a stage where we recite the monotonous monologue that is our life, a knowing governed by internal tides, by intimations, motives, resolutions, by temptations, secrecy, shame, and pride.
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Virtue is insufficient temptation.
