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George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

George Bernard Shaw

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Heart Desire Two Get Your

When I talk to booksellers, they tell me how hard it is to hand-sell some of my books because I do keep popping around.

Matthew Desmond

Me Talk Hard Tell Keep Because

I think it has been a tremendous feat on the part of East Germans since 1990 to adapt to everything changing.

Think Adapt Everything Changing Been

Politics boils down to the stories we tell ourselves. And unfortunately, we tell ourselves different stories.

Politics Down Tell Different Stories

Reality TV is set up to make people entertaining. A good person with values and principles is not good television.

Good People Reality Good Person Up

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

Time Depressing May Well Our Time

If I have a pocket, then I'll have lip balm, my keys, and $10 cash.

Cash Keys Lip Balm Pocket Then

I've been around many different lives, many different voices. It was amazing material for a writer.

Amazing Voices Different Been Writer

There are a million things I'd rather do before designing clothes: directing, landscaping.

Christian Louboutin

Clothes Things Million Directing

I helped start a ceramics company called CPS Technologies. We took it public in 1987 at $12 a share. Three months later, there was this horrible cliff: Black Monday. Fidelity had bought 15 percent of our stock, and their algorithm caused them to dump it all onto the market that day. We dropped from $12 to $2.

Clayton M. Christensen

Day Monday Start Black Three Cliff

I had always thought, for 'Roman Empire,' I would love to do the death of Marcus Aurelius in the snow. One morning I woke up, and it was really snowing.

Love Snow Morning Death Thought Up

The worst question is, 'Where do you see yourself in five years?' I don't know. Variety is the spice of life. That's the best way to describe it.

Life Best Yourself You Know Spice

When I was starting, there were wool mills in the U.S. that could make you anything. The U.S. used to produce the most beautiful cotton denim in the world. Now all that is gone.

Beautiful World You Now Cotton Gone

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