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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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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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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But I think we need the international market.
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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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Working hard to fulfill a dream or instinct and learning over time it doesn't work, doesn't mean a career is over and a reputation killed. When a reputation is killed, it's when failure comes as a result of loss of integrity or judgement... breaking of laws.
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Why doesn't constant trampling defeat the dandelion? The key to its strength is its long and sturdy root, which extends deep into the earth. The same priciple applies to people. The true victors in life are those who, enduring repeated challenges and setbacks, have sent the roots of their being to such a depth that nothing can shake them.
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Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That's luck. That's randomness.
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The funniest memory that I can recall about my school days has to be one incident that involved unfinished homework for numerous days. I didn't do any of my homework for days and days at a stretch, and kept stalling my teacher that I was extremely unwell and was under heavy medication.
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If you want to give the devil a message, write it on the bottom of your shoes.
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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.
