H. G. Wells Quotes
If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.
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There should be more interaction and more confidence building between our various academic institutions just like how there needs to be a confidence building between industry and academics.
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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A well-aimed spear is worth three.
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In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
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The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves.
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Creating a poem is a continual process of re-creating your ignorance, in the sense of not knowing what's coming next.
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I'm a big believer of work/life balance. You need a little down time to recharge to make sure that when you're here, you're really all here. I still have a child in high school, so I go to her sporting events, even if it means leaving work and working again when I get home. I probably should work out a little more than I do.
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People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object of that activity is pleasure. ...People understand the meaning of art only when they cease to consider that the aim of that activity is beauty, i.e., pleasure.
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Besides commercial benefits to the oil companies, equity oil abroad also provides national energy security.
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I have always said that the best training to be a TV newsman or anybody on television is to do a children's show because you are oblivious to the fact that there is a camera there.
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If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.
