Jules Verne Quotes
I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
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I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.
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I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.
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My husband works in the music industry and he's always the first to know about great new bands, so I end up seeming really with it because I'll be listening to an up-and-coming band before everyone else hears about it.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It's equality, it's fairness, and I think it's a great thing to be a part of.
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I'm not a very religious man, but I'm proud to be a Jew.
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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
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All of us must recognise that education and innovation will be the currency of the 21st Century.
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I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success.
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We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything, Anarchism, with the rest. But I have not tried it. They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?
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I get a little nauseated, perhaps, when I hear the phrase 'freedom of the Press' used as freely as it is, knowing that a large part of our proprietorial Press is not free at all
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Mom and I…we're both very flaky people.
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'I see . . .' said the vampire thoughtfully, and slowly he walked across the room towards the window. first line
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Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything.
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Art is thought, and thought only gives the world an appearance of order to anyone weak enough to be convinced by its show.
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There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own standing in the shadow, and yet alive to every tremor and gleam of existence, there they endure.
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge.
