George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
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I was complexed and awkward that I was good for nothing and was always lying. I would lie to my school friends that I was a stud in my colony and to my colony friends that I was a stud in the school cricket and football teams, though I was in no team.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.
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Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.
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I am used to looking good. In a way, if I thought I looked like the back end of a bus, I probably wouldn't have done 'Strictly Come Dancing' and gone out there in public.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.
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I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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I have no advice for anyone on how to live.
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I spent a lot of time in boarding school. This is something I will never do to my kids. I think if you're having kids, then you have to take care of them; otherwise, what's the point? There are many things that parents say are good for the kids, but the truth is they say that because it is good for the parents.
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
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I love the feeling that you get when you can really laugh with a man and be natural and not always think that there's a sexual element going on. For me, flirting with a man means making fun of myself and trying to open myself and be very unpretentious.
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I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.
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I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.
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Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.
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'Brave New World' dealt with a kind of proto-genetic engineering of the unborn, through really, as many dystopias do, it dealt with totalitarianism. The 1997 film 'Gattaca' updated 'Brave New World,' bringing us to a future where genetic testing determined your job, your wealth, your status in life.
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There are no shortcuts to true excellence.
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I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.
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Whereas the good news had first been published for its own sake with no concern for success, now ineluctably success brought, as always, a desire for it. … They were not aware of what was happening, namely, that society was inverting Christianity instead of being subverted by it.
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The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.
