Jules Verne Quotes
However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten.
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
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I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.
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Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
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I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.
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I pick up on other people's discomfort.
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Great songs come out of people's bedrooms; they come out of studios; there's no formula for it.
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I was having a lot of people ask me to update 'The Shock Doctrine' and add a chapter about Trump.
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People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.
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People don't want to hear about it if you're frustrated with your big career break.
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By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.
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I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting me - they're completely incredible people. It was my dad who encouraged me to question everything, to forge my own path, to think, to read. I always felt it was my right to question everything.
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A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.
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People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.
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I don't try to impress people. Sometimes my jokes can be very harsh; I'm very sarcastic. I would joke about something disgusting, and my agent might be like, 'OK, maybe leave that behind for this one meeting. The burping? Maybe don't do that.'
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I am a democrat because I believe in the Fall of Man. I think most people are democrats for the opposite reason.
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It was in the nature of truly effective good-luck pieces that human beings never really owned them.
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I've always had a strong start, but the start in boardercross is so important. And if you're not getting better, you're getting worse.
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As your congressman, I hold the Holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington D.C.
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You want to play as long as you can. The old, unwritten rule: If you make it to the NBA, you play as long as you can - and you play one more year.
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However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten.
