George Bernard Shaw Quotes
The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.
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I'm a big proponent of young women dressing appropriately in the workplace to get ahead. We need to demand respect as women, and part of that involves how we present ourselves.
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My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.
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They are very brave when they talk about other countries where they have no competencies, but where are they when we citizens need them? Is Europe's solution to Catalans to turn its back?
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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Yes, we've still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.
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I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!
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I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.
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Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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Challenges give me a kick. The day I stop getting challenges, I would quit.
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You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.
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I still pray a lot. I still believe in God. I just don't believe in any set religion.
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I'm just kind of focused on playing the game and try to get better at certain things and wipe the slate clean every night.
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When your neighbour's house is on fire, you should help with a bucket of water.
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I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
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If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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I am not a madman or a nut.
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I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.'
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People are starved for the truth, and when something comes along that even looks like the truth, people will latch onto it because everything's so false.
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There are two things I like stiff and one of them's jelly.
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I don't get easily bored. I'm not that kind of person.
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An educated person is not necessarily the one who has the knowledge, but the one who knows where to get it when needed.
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The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.
