James Hilton Quotes
There's only one thing more important... and that is, after you've done what you set out to do, to feel that it's been worth doing.
James Hilton
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
Tamae Watanabe
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I do Athlete Devotion throughout all my fight camps. I am a Christian, so I fight with God first, and I have my devotions with me everywhere I go.
Paige VanZant
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
Patrick Rothfuss
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
Victor Hugo
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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
E. M. Forster
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If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.
Patrick Wilson
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The petition of persons under eighteen, praying that I would free all slave children, and the heading of which petition it appears you wrote, was handed me a few days since by Senator Sumner. Please tell these little people I am very glad their young hearts are so full of just and generous sympathy, and that, while I have not the power to grant all they ask, I trust they will remember that God has, and that, as it seems, He wills to do it.
Abraham Lincoln
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The encryption genie is out of the bottle.
Jan Koum
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I'll always write picture books - it's just what I do. I'd even do it if I wasn't being paid.
Debi Gliori
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I learned from Ethel Waters, Duke Ellington, Adelaide Hall, the Nicholas Brothers, the whole thing, the whole schmear. [The Cotton Club] was a great place because it hired us, for one thing, at a time when it was really rough [for Black performers].
Lena Horne
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You still slightly down that you're ever going to work again, every time you finish something. That's the territory of being an actor. It's like anything that's competitive. It takes a lot of determination. I just feel lucky to be able to do something that I really love.
Felicity Jones
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There's only one thing more important... and that is, after you've done what you set out to do, to feel that it's been worth doing.
James Hilton
