George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
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A heroic nature is very Greek.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Networking is never easier than when people are coming to you.
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Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
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In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of my paintings.
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We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.
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It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.
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Things aren't always clear at the beginning of a relationship. Be up-front. Don't play on her confusion or vulnerability. Women want and appreciate clarity.
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One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.
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Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It's a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.
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A number of people in the United States, almost everyone, is using plastic cards to pay for things, but it's extremely difficult to accept these cards. So let's make it's easy and take more and more of the friction out as we can.
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I'm very intolerant and I get fed up with people easily.
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I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.
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Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.
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It's hard to remember, when you look at a magazine or when you look at pictures of people, and you forget that those people are people like you. They have flaws and insecurities. That's so easy to forget, even for me, as somebody who's sometimes in those magazines.
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All love is unrequited. All of it.
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I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.
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Even if you have a big tune, live crowds can get sick of it. It's not just about the song but also the staying power and if people have connected with it in a certain way. I know that the tracks I put more emotion and depth into are the ones that have the staying power in clubs.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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It's a juicy thing to say we're building a phone, which is why people want to write about it. But it's so clearly the wrong strategy for us.
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My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn’t just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you’ve got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren’t only bombs and bullets - no, they’re little gifts, containing meanings!
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How you ought properly to spell 'fish' in English: 'goti' .
