George Bernard Shaw Quotes
When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.
Quotes to Explore
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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I suffered from 'No one will ever fancy me!' syndrome, well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
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Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.
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I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.
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You can't tag me as a regional actress.
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I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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When I'm singing, I connect the dots with notes.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
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To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture.
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Many environmental battles are won by delaying a destructive project long enough to change the conversation - to allow new economic, political and social dynamics to emerge.
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I loved him, but I also realized how calm my life was without him.
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The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.
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I'll put it this way, there was no C.P. Kennedy, there was no Dwight Dickham, we never went in the courtroom. That was the script I got. The affliction that the judge is suffering from was completely different.
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This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.
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Sometimes it's not even a role that's specifically written for a woman. It could be a role written for a white man or Asian man, or Latino. If it's something that I feel I could do well, I go after it. Especially if it's nothing that has to be gender or race specific, I'm all over it.
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When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.
