A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
Quote by George Bernard Shaw
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A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
- Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
- The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
- He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
- Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
- Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
- There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
- I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
- Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
- Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.
- A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
Best Quotes
- The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.
- Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.
- A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone.
- It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.
- Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
- It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success.
- When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.
- I love acting. It's my playground, it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.
- Sometimes I make very selfish choices like I did 'Once Upon A Time' for my inner 8-year-old and my hypothetical future child. I've done some movies because I would regret them if I didn't, but other projects I've done because they've scared me or if I felt I needed to do a big romantic comedy to help me professionally.
- Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.