H. G. Wells Quotes
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
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I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
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When I do retire, I will miss the trips with the team, the jokes with my teammates, the habits: having breakfast with them, playing with them, all the little things.
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Things that happen in Wyoming are things that wouldn't happen in a big city - we've got bears, we've got a lot of shotguns - in Absaroka County, everybody's got a shotgun in the back of their car!
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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Rejuvenation of younger players should be the job of the Indonesian Badminton Association. But local competitions will help identify new talent.
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Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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When we're back home, I feel pretty domesticated.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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I always have to be writing.
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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.
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History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
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One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.
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There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
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Talking about auditions, you never know what anyone else is thinking.
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There were so many layers of reality to the world. Nothing stopped for death; nothing stopped for grief or horror or tragedy.
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Of course, I want to look the best I can, but I am playing characters that should match my age, and the women and the material that I am interested in are usually going through something. I have to be able to live in my face and tell the story of the character I've taken on.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
