George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it?
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I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.
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Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.
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What I can tell you is that for Puerto Rico being such a small island, it has culturally impacted the entire world.
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I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.
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I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.
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This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.
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The dominant economic approach of the last thirty years is now on its last legs. Letting the market rip and an indifference to inequality are now seen as important causes of the greatest economic crash since the 1930s.
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In 'Pacific Rim' I had to have a haircut I wouldn't usually rock. However, the moustache I had in the film - that might have to come out again. It was a good moustache. Good times.
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Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true.
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For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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I started violently, as if some unseen hand had goosed me.
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There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.
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If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.
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Could five hundred men have painted the Sistine Chapel?
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There was a time when I thought I could change everything. I have learned the hard way that we only have so much strength: better to use it for fights where we stand a chance of winning.
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For those looking outside-in, it's not fair - or accurate - to assign someone an identity based off the first thing that we see.
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Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.
