H. G. Wells Quotes
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Without the media, the American people won't have the type of information they need to hold their leaders to account. The relationship between government and media has always been strained, and I think most of the time that's a healthy strain.
Dan Bartlett -
In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'
Ted Yoho -
For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.
Gabrielle Aplin -
Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
Kara Swisher -
Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
E. O. Wilson -
I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.
L.A. Reid
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I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it's probably kind of sad to live forever if you're the only one sticking around.
Viggo Mortensen -
Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
Salman Rushdie -
Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
Nadia Giosia -
I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
Adam McKay -
I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.
Earl Warren -
I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally you get a phone call and you hear some misrepresentation of what someone else had to say.
Radha Mitchell
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The military executes policy decisions.
Jack Keane -
When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.
Dan Pink -
Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.
Iman -
Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
Fiona Shaw -
I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.
Pat Metheny -
Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.
Larry Merchant
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I've grown up surrounded by Americans and to a very large extent feel American. It sounds strange because I seem to be so quintessentially English in everyone's mind - and perhaps I am. Perhaps it's quintessentially English to have a fascination with America.
Colin Firth -
It's great to have the freedom to enjoy your work and not feel like you're leaving your other life behind.
Anna Paquin -
I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.
Mark Haddon -
With all of the people in Cuba who I met - many of them hugely heroic figures - I found learning about their complexity and richness and contradictions just really fascinating, and it was fulfilling to be able to offer a different side to them, to be able to have some kind of unique takeaway from the official narrative.
Brin-Jonathan Butler -
One of the things that's influenced me musically was my experience at Brown University. I was surrounded by musicians that I really admired, and felt challenged to come up with music, lyrics, and recordings that stood up to the expectations of those musicians and myself.
Lisa Loeb -
Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions, great or small.
H. G. Wells