H. G. Wells Quotes
If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.
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R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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If an organization values innovation, you can assume it's safe to speak up with new ideas, leaders will listen, and your voice matters.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance.
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I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
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I feel like I've accomplished everything I could in the dunk contest. It would be hard for me to go back and outdo myself.
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We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.
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The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated into more than 30 languages. It appears on reading lists from business schools to yoga retreats. Rabbis, priests and imams have quoted from it in their sermons.
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The Bible differs from all other books in that it never wears out. Other books are read and laid aside, but the Bible is a constant companion. No matter how often we read it or how familiar we become with it, some new truth is likely to spring out at us from its pages whenever we open it, or some old truth will impress us as it never did before. Every Christian can give illustrations of this.
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Leadership is found in the action to defeat that which would defeat you… You are made by the struggles you choose.
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When you come from where I come from, if anyone in the family makes it out, the others kind of come with you.
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If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.
