George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I'm like a beast. I just take it out on the track.
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If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.
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I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.
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Always grow flowers, as that will make your way full of flowers. Never grow thorns, as that will make your way thorny. Never want to target someone on an arrow. You may become the target of that arrow. Never make a well in the way of someone. As you may pass by that way sometime.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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My mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what.
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I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
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The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.
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My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
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As to which is cuter, a puppy or a baby, I'm going to say that probably depends less on the particular puppy and more on the baby. I've seen pictures of me as an infant and consider myself lucky that nobody ever offered my parents the opportunity to trade me for a beagle.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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I'm always really curious about, you know, 'How do you deal with success psychologically?' and all this stuff.
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I don't think it's hypothetical whether or not it's a good idea to topple secular dictators in the Middle East and hope to get a good outcome and hope that stability comes thereafter.
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We must reconcile ourselves to a season of failures and fragments.
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The happiest people are those who are too busy to notice whether they are or not.
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The men who control the CIA are of an older, conservative generation which has kept the agency fifteen or twenty years behind the progress of the nation at large.
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Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize... the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.
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Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.
