Jules Verne Quotes
As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome.
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Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
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I have lived a carnal life.
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You graduate from film school and move to Hollywood. Hollywood tells you, 'We're not the place for you to make films,' so you decide you have to make a film yourself.
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I was a teenage girl once. I was not an overweight teenage girl, but I had really bad acne when I was 11 or 12 years old. It was heart-rending, and people made fun of me. People whispered when I walked by in the hallways, and I was sure they were whispering about me. My adult perspective is maybe they weren't.
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Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.
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Living with very limited expectations is a much more immediate way of living. You really do just make the best of everything you have. I guess kids have that ability; they wait in joyful anticipation of something rather than that sense of entitlement.
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I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.
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I've never seen a movement spread as fast as the fossil fuel divestment movement.
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I've struggled a lot for what I have today.
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I love my job and I know I am very lucky but still, if you audition and you don't get it, it still affects you.
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In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.
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I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do.
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I keep [portraits of Jigoro Kano and a bust] at home, in my residence, where I live permanently. It's a very good, high-quality work by a Russian sculptor, depicting not just a strong-willed but also thoughtful and kind man.
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One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.
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Of all the communities available to us, there is not one I would want to devote myself to except for the society of the true seekers, which has very few living members at any one time.
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Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.
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Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. Then your love would also change.
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One of the things that's really exciting from my perspective is that Canada is one of the major spacefaring nations. The list of our achievements is profound and significant, and it's not just in robotics, it's also in the life-sciences research experiments that take place on board and other space-science experiments. I'd love to see Canada go from being a major spacefaring nation in low-Earth-orbit missions to those beyond, making sure we're part of those missions to Mars - not just from a technology perspective, but sending humans into beyond-Earth orbit.
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Total nonviolent non-cooperation has no place in popular Raj, whatever its level may be.
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Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.
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As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome.
