George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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• To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Earth
  • Like
  • Saying

• I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Up
  • Love
  • Experience

• I don't do negative things.

  

  Rajeev Shukla
  • Things
  • Negative

• There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.

  

  Walead Beshty
  • Up
  • Relationship
  • Image

• Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Why
  • She
  • Bad

• I do know that I've read somewhere that it's been statistically proven that in times of war, horror films are much more popular. I don't know why that is. You'd think it'd be the opposite. You'd think people would want to escape from it.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • People
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  • War

• Writers are so important.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Important
  • Writers

• I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Future
  • Stop
  • March

• It's been such a group effort. When you're a new band and you have limited resources, you end up getting people that are there because they love what you do, and that's great.

  

  Balthazar Getty
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  • Great
  • Effort

• I don't have a favorite author; I have favorite books. 'Moby Dick' is a favorite book, but Melville was a drunk who beat his wife. 'Moveable Feast' by Hemingway, but I would not like him personally. He was a stupid macho person who believed in shooting animals for fun, but that book was incredible!

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Book
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  • Wife

• I am gay, and I'm very comfortable with it.

  

  Adam Lambert
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• Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for power and revenge on the votaries of the ancien regime.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Power
  • Freedom
  • Struggle

• When I hold something that's radioactive, it's kind of an indescribable feeling. It's kind of like when I'm with my girlfriend.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Feeling
  • Kind
  • Girlfriend

• How can Israel say that everyone is equal before the law - that you're equal before the law - when the law defines Judaism as the cultural, national and legislative basis for the state?

  

  Yair Lapid
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  • Legislative

• Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Compassion
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  • Islam

• I was a gymnast for many years before I was a dancer, so it comes in pretty handy when we do stunts.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Pretty
  • Years
  • Before

• I really don't want you to think of Qatar as a hydrocarbon country alone. We know that hydrocarbons will come and go. But education will stay. It is the most important thing for us.

  

  Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
  • Important
  • Country
  • Education

• I have so many indie bands on my iPod. What I don't really understand is the attitude that if a band is unknown, they're good, and if they get fans, then you move on to the next band.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Good
  • Band
  • Attitude

• I am not saying that I'm happy about what's going on right now in our nation, but I am at peace and I am comforted because I know that He's on the throne. That is good enough for me.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Good
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  • Peace

• I wasn't allowed to watch regular television when I was growing up, only PBS, so I watched 'Masterpiece Theatre' and a lot of Jane Austen. I loved stories where the girl is attracted to a man and it looks like it's not going to work out.

  

  Jennifer Coolidge
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• Young men, more than anything, need good role models in their lives.

  

  Eric Metaxas
  • Good
  • Men

• You know what, I'm very interested in acting, but right now I'm busy promoting my album and going on tour because that's my first love, but I'm very interested in doing some parts that may come my way. I've been offered a few movie parts so far, but I have to really concentrate on singing. But it's something I'm interested in doing eventually. I haven't been offered a part that truly inspires me to take time off, though.

  

  Christina Aguilera
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• It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
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