Jules Verne Quotes

Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.

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I don't like controversy.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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The Gaelic language itself depends very much on ear and rhythm, and when those who are thinking in Gaelic speak in English, they get the same rhythm.
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I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.
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I certainly think it's really important that folks in the metropolitan area be able to meet the increased cost of living.
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But it's not just a game of finding literary references.
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Eventually you get bored and you want to work.
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If I lift any weights, I do it more for explosion, but I really use my body weight to build up muscle and strength.
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It can be tough to find areas where Left and Right can agree. Consider the well-being of children: Americans often disagree about how to raise kids, how to educate them, even what to feed them.
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'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.
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People don't stop eating, and they don't stop drinking coffee.
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From 1991 to 2000, I was totally nomadic. I was travelling 300 days a year and building out my research. These were a bit like my learning and migrating years, so to say.
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I was in Africa Before the building of Rome. I came here To the remnant of Troy.
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'Let him talk as he will!' scoffed Zamp. 'His motives are not at all obscure.'
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It's a new world, Arcane...It's full of shopping malls...and striplights and software. The dark corners are being pushed back...a little more every day.We're things of the shadow, you and I...And there isn't as much shadow...as there used to be..
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How many artists subscribe to the notion that creative success depends on input from the fickle muse or her modern avatar, mental illness? Probably very few.
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If I play hard to get, soon the phone stops ringing altogether.
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I have candles, pictures and flowers on my nightstand... and of course a lamp!
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From these biased studies come biased social policy. Hundreds of millions of dollars to enforce sanctions against fathers who don’t pay mothers; almost nothing to enforce sanctions against mothers who don’t allow fathers to see children.
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If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.
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I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
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It's been my experience with damaged people: they don't wake up every day and wallow in the bad things that have happened to them.
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Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.