George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.
Quotes to Explore
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Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton and I were the first female headliners, where we would book our own opening acts. Before that, it was a standing joke that it was more like we had 'pretty little girl singers' opening for a male headliner.
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Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.
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The worst thing that we could do is raises taxes. It would only hurt the economy.
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A letter is never ill-timed; it never interrupts. Instead it waits for us to find the opportune minute, the quiet moment to savor the message. There is an element of timelessness about letter writing.
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I want to tell her that I can't pull her down. I want to tell her that she has to let go of my hand in order to swim. I want to tell her that she must live her own life. But I sense she already knows that these options are open to her. And that she, too, has made her choice.
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All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.
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My mother's five-foot-two, and I'll be honest with you - she's the only person I'm scared of.
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I love how the soccer guys just fall when they get kicked and go baby crying.They try to explain to the referee like he's their mother: "Wah! Did you see what he did?" Then they get back to playing soccer again.
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They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball.
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Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.
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The miracle is that the universe created a part of itself, to study itself,
and that this part in studying itself finds the rest of the universe in its own natural inner realities.
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Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more time to fry a four-pound carp than to boil an egg.
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It is a hell of a thing to be hungry in your own house.
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This is not the beginning of American civilization where we need guns because it's the Wild, Wild West... There should not be guns in our society, and we all know that; politicians know that.
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One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more.
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Americans want to have what members of Congress have: guaranteed health coverage.
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When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.
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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
