George Bernard Shaw Quotes

When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order, and morals.

George Bernard Shaw

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• It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.

  

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• Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.

  

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• 'In Memoriam' has been my companion for all my grownup life.

  

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• I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.

  

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• It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.

  

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• Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.

  

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• My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell me stories that she read about that were interesting to her.

  

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• I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.

  

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• I think there should be a good balance between being a good student and being able to enjoy your high school life.

  

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• As an Indian, I would like to back my government.

  

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• I will persist until I succeed. I was not deIivered unto this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd.

  

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• The course of the United States in World War II, I said, was dishonest, dishonorable, and ignominious, and the Sunpapers, by supporting Roosevelt's foreign policy, shared in this disgrace.

  

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• So poisonousAre the ravishments of truth, so fatal to The truth itself, the first idea becomes The hermit in a poet’s metaphors,Who comes and goes and comes and goes all day.

  

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• I keep hearing this expletive thing that guns don't kill people, but people kill people.

  

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• Celtic music will always be around, even if with the mainstream crowds it dies out.

  

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• After six wonderful years playing Emily Prentiss, I have decided it's time for me to move on. As much as I will miss my 'Criminal Minds' family, I am excited about the future and other opportunities.

  

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• The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard -it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

  

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• I prepare myself to fight; I prepare myself for myself.

  

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• I don't know where my romanticism comes from. My mom and dad would read to me a lot. 'Treasure Island,' 'Robinson Crusoe,' tales of chivalry and knights, things like that. Those are the stories I loved growing up.

  

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• When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order, and morals.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Law
  • Order
  • Morals