George Bernard Shaw Quotes
I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.
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I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens.
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From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.
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I've always been a fan of Fran Drescher!
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I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.
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I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.
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Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
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I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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The Dumnonii, whose city or fortress was at Exeter, were an important people. They occupied the whole of the peninsula from the River Parret to Land's End. East of the Tamar was Dyfnaint, the Deep Vales; west of it Corneu, the horn of Britain.
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Men and women are equally intelligent, but separate factors, such as the abilities to focus, be collaborative and take other people's views into account, allow you to be successful.
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Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.
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I have never declared myself an Indigenous politician; I am not an Indigenous Chief Minister.
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Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.
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What's so wonderful about football and business and show business is that every time I start thinking I'm special, I get knocked on my ass.
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This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world.
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It's nowhere in here And its everywhere else that I don't wanna be, But I'm stuck here getting misty over you I'm alone on a bicycle for two.
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I can sing, but it takes an incredible amount of work for me to sound acceptable.
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When you've finished the film and everybody's already made back all their money, everybody just leaves you alone and I'm very happy. That's what it has to be like.
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My talent is numbers.
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We both spend our money on things that break too easily like… people.
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I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.
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I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
