George Bernard Shaw Quotes

What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?--as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!

George Bernard Shaw

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• Don't assume that the answers are out there in the form of somebody else already doing something. Sometimes they are. But you have to think beyond that.

  

  Abigail Johnson
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• Being on 'The Vampire Diaries' feels almost like a game you play when you're a kid. When I was a kid, I used to have to take the garbage out at night on Wednesdays. I lived out in the country. I'd take the garbage out, and I used to pretend that I was the only person in the whole world, except for one other person, and he was looking for me.

  

  Taylor Kinney
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• I'm not into the attention thing so much.

  

  Flume
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• I put so much of myself out there and make myself so accessible that sometimes I fear I make myself too accessible.

  

  Halsey
  • Fear
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• Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.

  

  Rachel True
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• I grew up on 'Battle of the Planets.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
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• I love New York. Love it.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Love
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• The 'Outlander' fans are super-passionate.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
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• When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Bad
  • Playing
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• The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • World
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  • Stress

• I was excited to make my own 'Neverland.'

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Own
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• What once was an expression of who I was - acting - also became my hiding place.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Acting
  • Expression
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• Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
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• I want to separate my professional life from my personal life. I want to live a normal life and be a normal mother.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
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  • Mother

• The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another.

  

  Ayn Rand
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• Now the Senate is looking for 'moderate' judges, 'mainstream' judges. What in the world is a moderate interpretation of a constitutional text? Halfway between what it says and what we'd like it to say?

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • World
  • Text

• I always want to do things that are different. I don't want to be doing the same thing, the same performance constantly, and it feels like most people tell you that they are the same. However different you feel might approach them.

  

  Jeremy Northam
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• Football, particularly Brazilian football, is about being happy, and that's what tricks do. It's part of our culture, at the end of the day, though, it's all about winning.

  

  Neymar
  • Happy
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• Fans have this perception that they can say anything to you because you are a celebrity.

  

  Charles Barkley
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• One day, someone said to me, 'Do you want to go jump out of an airplane?' I felt like I had nothing to lose anymore, so I said, 'Why not?' And every day since then, I ask myself that question.

  

  Shania Twain
  • Why
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  • Jump

• As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Economy
  • Astrology
  • Creeds

• Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.

  

  Josh Billings
  • Money
  • True
  • Health

• What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?--as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Money
  • Benefit
  • Marrying