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George Bernard Shaw Quotes

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

George Bernard Shaw

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: dramatist
Nationality: irish
Birth: July 26, 1856 - November 2, 1950

Topics

Learning Long You Dirty Pig Never

My biggest regret is that I've assisted the media in making me into a cartoon character. I don't regret what has happened to me, but I regret the way I have dealt with it.

Character Me Regret Media Way Dealt

The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life - even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age.

Robert Gottlieb

Life Work Hard Work Kindness Age

My mother was a children's librarian, and I was raised on lots of English children's literature. It gave me this weird idea that I was English.

Mother Children Me Weird Literature

When I took the Hippocratic oath and was effectively 'sworn in' as a doctor, I took the same vow that doctors have taken for generations. Patient autonomy is core to this oath.

Doctor Same Patient Core Oath Taken

No one ever sits you down at age eight and says, 'Aminatta, this is what's happened so far.' You have to work it out for yourself, and by the time you do, it's ancient history to many of the players. We're trying to make sense of the past, so we start to excavate our memories.

Work Age Memories History Time Past

Because of the rate of technology change, forecast horizons are shrinking.

Steve Jurvetson

Change Technology Forecast Because

In the movies, I loved Errol Flynn whether he was playing a soldier or a pirate. I dug pirates. In fact, my first exposure to live performances was when my paternal grandfather took me to a D'Oyly Carte performance of 'The Pirates of Penzance' which impresario Sol Hurok imported from London. I loved every minute of it.

Live Me Performance Loved Movies

It's hard to run a mile when you're not a miler and to kick when you've led all the way.

Steve Prefontaine

You Run Way Hard Kick Led

I feel special. Most women will have only one menopause, and they will hate it. I will have two, and when the second one comes, I will know what is coming. I am having my extra menopause as a cure. I have endometriosis.

Women Hate I Am Feel Know Will

We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.

Miguel de Unamuno

God Universe Feel Meaning Understand

I just wanted to write the songs. I never wanted to sing them.

Never Write Sing Just Songs Wanted

I just had to block someone on Facebook who was impersonating my wife.

Wife Someone Facebook Just Who Had

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