H. G. Wells Quotes
They haven't any spirit in them - no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn't one or the other-Lord! What is he but funk and precautions.
H. G. Wells
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
Jack Antonoff
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My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.
Hannah Storm
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
Wayne Grady
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I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.
Rachel Stevens
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I am a huge, huge fan of the plain white tee. A good-fitting, vintage plain white t-shirt, like the 'boyfriend shirt', is the sexiest thing a girl can wear. It goes with anything, fancy or casual.
Zoe Kravitz
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For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
Mahatma Gandhi
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On a blue island in a sky-wide water The wild orange trees continued to bloom and to bear, Long after the planter’s death.
Wallace Stevens
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You think once you've shown what you can do, and your movies have been successful, that snap, you work. So to discover the difference between guys' roles and girls' roles made me plain mad. It's unjust.
Connie Nielsen
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'You're never too old to dance, Dad...and you're never too old to dream.''That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard you say. Were you saying that with irony or for real?'
Douglas Coupland
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Way back in the 1970s, I was eating a steak, and I looked down, and for the first time it suddenly looked like flesh to me - like a dead creature. In a flash, I realized that every time I ate any kind of meat, something had been killed for me, and I stopped eating all animals, not just cows and pigs but chickens and fish.
Joanna Lumley
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Our people are angry and motivated, and they continue to believe that politicians should not be involved in a decision that's between a woman, her family and God.
Nancy Keenan
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They haven't any spirit in them - no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn't one or the other-Lord! What is he but funk and precautions.
H. G. Wells