George Bernard Shaw Quotes
The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.
Quotes to Explore
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As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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I don't like controversy.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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Why is it that a large majority of Hindus do not inter-dine and do not inter-marry? Why is it that your cause is not popular? There can be only one answer to this question, and it is that inter-dining and inter-marriage are repugnant to the beliefs and dogmas which the Hindus regard as sacred.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.
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Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
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Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.
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It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.
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I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
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It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
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I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.
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I'd follow Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson anywhere.
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A good fan base has developed around the Hurricanes, and I see the opportunity for continued growth for this franchise in the future.
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Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.
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Shaw presumes that his friend Stalin has everything under control. Well, Stalin may have made special arrangements to see that Shaw comes to no harm, but the rest of us in Western Europe do not feel quite so sure of our fate, especially those of us who do not share Shaw's curious admiration for dictators.
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'She gives him candy. They're probably going to get married.'
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Protection is not a principle, but an expedient.
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But to-day, mankind believes itself able to do without Art. It does not wish to meditate, to contemplate, to dream; it wishes to enjoy physically. The heights and the depths of truth are indifferent to it; it is content to satisfy its bodily appetites. Mankind to-day is brutish - it is not the stuff of which artists are made.
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What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.
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The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.
