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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With a strong focus on driver-partners and the community at large, we aim to create a high-quality and affordable travel experience for citizens and look forward to contributing to a healthy mobility ecosystem in Australia.
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I don't think I am narcissistic. I think I have low self-esteem.
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I think some of that comes with age, with life in general, to try to keep yourself as healthy as possible.
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I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.
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It is generally supposed that complete pleasure of this kind, permeating one's very flesh and bones, unfits the student for scientific pursuits in which cool judgment and observation are required. But the effect is just the opposite. Instead of producing a dissipated condition, the mind is fertilized and stimulated and developed like sun-fed plants.
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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.
