H. G. Wells Quotes
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.
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You listen to Black Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio in it, and it's not Black Sabbath. They should have just called it 'Heaven and Hell' right from the beginning. Because you listen to that 'Heaven and Hell' album, that doesn't sound anything close to Black Sabbath.
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I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
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You cannot have adoration without being criticized.
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When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.
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The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.
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Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
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I believe that there are no mistakes in the universe, so I think it all happens as it should!
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A manager wins games in the winter when he picks his team.
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I do 280 episodes of TV a year, write 15 recipes for the magazine, and publish an annual book. With all of that, we try to get one weekend a month with Isaboo at our home in the Adirondacks to relax and recharge.
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Based on 30 years of experience with the Iranians, they will give you 100 words. Trust only one of the 100.
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Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.
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I was a big fan of the Tim Burton films. I really liked the character. And I remember thinking the Batmobile was very cool.
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Yet, I didn't understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last resort of people who are timid and chaste of heart, whose souls have been coarsely and impudently invaded; and who, until the last moment, refuse to yield out of pride and are afraid to express their own feelings to you.
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I have always hoped that it might be possible to conclude my ministry as I had begun it, as a parish priest, and this I believe to be the call of God.
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Knowledge enormous makes a God of me.
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How do you know when the drum riser is level? The drummer drools out of both sides of his mouth!
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A man rarely carries his shyness past the hobbledehoy period. Even if his own inward strength does not throw it off, the rubbings of the world generally smooth it down.
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Rowena: You’ve got the subtlety of a bullfrog.
