George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
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Nature is under control but not disturbed.
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On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession.
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Being a celebrity, I don't even have to talk.
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Lauren Conrad has been described as one of the first people to significantly benefit from the popularity of reality TV.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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When I got drafted by Minnesota, and I think I said this a couple weeks ago, I think I felt obligated to bring a Super Bowl to Minnesota.
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I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
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Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.
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Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it there.
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Today, we face another major potential attack on our country. This attack is not a hijacked plane or bomb, although that remains a threat; rather, it is a cyber attack.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.
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I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
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I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
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Should you create a protagonist based directly on yourself? The problem with this - and it is a very large problem - is that almost no one can view himself objectively on the page. As the writer, you're too close to your own complicated makeup.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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The more one chases the quanta, the better they hide themselves.
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I hate watching myself because when I watch anything I've ever done, I realize all the ways I could have done it better.
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A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.
