H. G. Wells Quotes
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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Right when 'High School Musical' was taking off, one of my little cousins called and was really excited to tell me there was a huge 'I Hate Zac Efron' club at her school. I'm sure they're doing great. More power to them.
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The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
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In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.
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The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.
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'The Big Chill' had a bunch of really talented actors, a great soundtrack, and the college connections that the characters shared. It's one of those movies I glean something different from every time I watch it.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.
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I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.
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The quickest way may not necessarily be the best.
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I'm a big champion of people doing things outside the system.
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I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.
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We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.
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I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.
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I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets.
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The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.
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Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do... but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.
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I love collaborating with different people.
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What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is a middle man - someone who is here to match people who need capital with people who have capital - and not position ourselves at the center of that by taking big positions on a trading stance.
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When I travel overseas on many occasions, I get pulled out because I may be buying a one-way ticket, I may be traveling with my sister and we have different last names. That's smart profiling. Just pulling people out one at a time when we have millions of passengers in random screenings I'm not sure is the best way to do it.
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Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss.
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I've got so much to do, I don't have time to sit down and be sad.
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Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
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Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
