George Bernard Shaw Quotes
It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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If Republicans want to be seen as more compassionate, they should continue to stand proudly for the sanctify of life and marriage. And they should do so without apologizing.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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I was a confident, outgoing little boy. If you're an only child, you're living in a very linguistically adult world, and you've got to keep up. So I did. Maybe I was slightly annoying.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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As a male designer, you always need a woman's touch.
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I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.
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I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.
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I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and I'd be left with the record company. And then – because they got fired – the record company wouldn't do anything for me.
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Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's something to explain to a more mainstream audience, so you get these passionate writers who want to express their love for rap and hip-hop, which is cool.
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I'm a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.
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The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life.
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I would have given up acting in a minute. I didn't like how it set me apart from other people.
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The government can spy on people using their mobile phones while they're with their wives and husbands.
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I think there are moral obligations, and I think there are economic transactions. So I think that chores are good; I think that allowances are good. I think combining them is bad.
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I'd like to have kids and a wife, and you know, drop them off at school and like, do normal things rather that constantly being on tour. Because I'm young now and I haven't really got a social life. This is all I do. It's the best job in the world, but I'll get to the point where there's more to life than work.
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He who trades pacing for gimmicky open-world freedom deserves neither.
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It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers.
