H. G. Wells Quotes
Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this Earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars.
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I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.
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I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and then I travel. Literally, writing for me is like travelling. It's getting out of myself and living another life - maybe a better life.
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
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After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.
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Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.
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When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.
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I'm a big believer in living life as an extended working vacation.
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So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.
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I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.
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When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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Life is funny. If you don't laugh, you're in trouble.
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People ask what I really did in the three years between 'The Dreaming' and 'Hounds of Love.' I spent it with my family, living a normal home life.
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I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life.
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Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society.
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I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.
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There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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I think part of being human is learning to roll with the punches, to deal with any kind of personal or professional disaster that might crop up. You have to learn to deal with that stuff or not survive.
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I want to do this for a long time; I want people to be saying, 'What is he doing still playing in clubs?'
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The touchstone of false friends is the day of need: by way of proof, ask a loan from your friends.
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Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this Earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars.
