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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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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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 am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.
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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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The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.
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The best thing for an actor to do is take your attention off of how you feel about it, and put it on striving to obtain a particular objective. The happy result is that it brings out all this unexpected stuff in yourself.
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It may be from some moral obliquity in myself, or from some strange disease; but for me, and I should think too for every human being in whose breast a human heart is beating, to know that one single creature is in that dreadful place would make a hell of heaven itself. And they have hearts in heaven, for they love there.
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The truth about parenting is that the reality of our lives needs to be enough.
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The truth is very few of us are related to Napoleon or Cleopatra. Although, those are bad examples as I am actually descended from both of 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.
