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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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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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 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'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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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
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When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set.
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The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.
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It's possible to look really cute and still be comfortable. You don't have to kill your feet to have a fashionable look.
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I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do everything.
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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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On a very basic, concrete level, there have been times when my work, regardless of the content, has harmed relationships because I made that work such a primary priority in my life.
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Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
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Men ain’t in politics for nothin’. They want to get somethin’ out of it.
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I never wanted to be aligned to a mature group because they go off and become politicians and stuff.
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I'm not a career kind of person. When I saw new music, new trends coming in, I didn't see any place for me. And I didn't think about it as a career loss, because I was married - I have a great- grandchild now. The low points were when I lost people that I really cared about.
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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.
