George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.
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I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.
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I do a lot of yoga, and that definitely helps. And Pilates is so good for your legs.
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I hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard I should be adhering to.
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A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty - their power and privilege - to State, Masses, Mankind, Planet Earth, or whatever. This state, those masses, that mankind, and the planet will then be run by ... politicians
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Most mothers want more of dad in their children’s lives, not less.
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You actually can’t understand American history without understanding slavery.
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Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.
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Demosthenes: Do you dare to accuse wine of clouding the reason? Quote me more marvellous effects than those of wine. Look! when a man drinks, he is rich, everything he touches succeeds, he gains lawsuits, is happy and helps his friends. Come, bring hither quick a flagon of wine, that I may soak my brain and get an ingenious idea. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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This is random, but I thought I was going to have the biggest Backstreet Boys fansite. I'm not even gonna lie: I thought I was gonna marry one of the Backstreet Boys, and I was gonna be his Yoko Ono.
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Opportunities present themselves every day - to everyone. You just have to be alert and ready to act.
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The schizophrenic has no sense of humor. His world is a constantly daunting, unfriendly place.
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I am very down to earth and practical.
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'Liberace's a great film. It's a great piece of material. I have a great script and it's a great score.
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But the thing is, I was never looking at a strategic way of gaining fame. That's not why I'm doing this.
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If any mayor reduced school funding by 33 percent and called it the 'Strengthening Our Schools Initiative,' I think they'd be excoriated.
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The way 'Lux' was made is that there are 12 sections in here, though two of them are joined together. So there are really 11 sections, in a sense, and each one uses five notes out of a palette of seven notes, and my palette is all the white notes on the piano. That was the original palette.
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The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues.
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It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it.
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Israel will not get everything it asks for...I firmly believe that the actions that Israel's government has taken over the past several years - the steady and systematic expansion of settlements, the legalization of outposts, land seizures - they're moving us, and, more importantly, they're moving Israel in the wrong direction
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When we go out, we do enjoy ourselves. We don't worry about whether or not people will recognize us.
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It is up to God to take revenge. Only God can judge. I don't have to worry about getting even with anybody or taking out any kind of aggression on anybody. Doing that is a weakness, anyway.
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The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
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Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
