George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

George Bernard Shaw

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• A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.

  

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• I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.

  

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• I just thought any workout that is effective and I can do while laying down I'm signing up for.

  

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• We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.

  

  Daniel Drew
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• We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.

  

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• Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.

  

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• I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.

  

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• Bitcoin has so much potential, and that's why the believers are trying to facilitate its use as a currency, so people use to buy things and spread it around more.

  

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• I went out there, and I fought Anderson Silva, and you know what? I got a big W, and that's massive for my career going forward.

  

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• I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.

  

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• A hit film is what we work for as actors, as that goes to show that we have managed to entertain our audiences who shower us with their love and affection throughout the years.

  

  Mahesh Babu
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• I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.

  

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• There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

  

  Walt Disney
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• Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.

  

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• We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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• It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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• People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.

  

  Tad Williams
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• The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

  

  Carl Sandburg
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• Before you rip off three feet of toilet paper, consider that each year 500,000 acres of virgin boreal forest in northern Alberta and Ontario are being clear-cut to make the stuff. These forests are home to some 500 First Nation communities, as well as caribou and bears, moose and wolves, and, in the summertime, billions of songbirds.

  

  Alex Shoumatoff
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• People learn English from 'Full House.' Candace's husband, Valeri Bure, he learned to speak English watching it... 'Aw, nuts.' 'You got it, dude.'

  

  Bob Saget
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• I am just enjoying my youth but I want to settle down eventually.

  

  Chris Evans

• I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before 'Mad Men.'

  

  Aaron Staton
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• I know I haven't said a lot of things I'm quoted as saying in the papers. It makes me wonder why I brought up the recovery story in the first place.

  

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• Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
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