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.
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I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.
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I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead.
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I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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It's very difficult switching over from one character to another.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.
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When you see the audiences and the smiling faces at the shows it really makes up for the work that you put in. I have a job I really love so whatever hecticness comes up - I'll just deal with it.
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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.
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My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.
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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.
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I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.
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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.
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For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
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If you look at all the sports in China, the government is extremely involved and they are extremely proud of their athlete.
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Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
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When you say 'revolution' when you have only men outside, you know that something is going wrong. I'm not like a hardcore feminist, but I think that one of the things that makes the society advanced is equality between men and women. If half of the society is oppressed by the other half, it's not fine.
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Physics is always a gamble; it is a game of exploration. That’s the fun of it. We never know for sure what will happen. Sometimes, we theorists can anticipate, but nature is the final judge.
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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.
