H. G. Wells Quotes
Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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I usually say I left puberty at 58.
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You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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Many of the wars we see around the world start as domestic conflicts that are fueled by external forces and powers. My view is that we can help peace if we help communities transform from the inside, on their own terms.
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it.
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What makes me happy is the appreciation of people around me.
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If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
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If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.
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I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.
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Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
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I like to razz the Trekkies a little bit. Who doesn't? It's trainspotting, isn't it? But they are very well-meaning, actually. I've done a couple of Star Trek conventions, and they've only been really welcoming.
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I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.
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I think if they put a laugh track on 'Intervention,' it would be funny.
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You have to get comfortable giving up control, and you find people who do things better than you do. Quora now does better with the team we have built.
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Some quirk in human nature allows even the most unspeakable acts of evil to become banal within minutes, provided that they occur far enough away to pose no personal threat.
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I'm far from being a homosexual.
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I'm astounded by people who can listen to music when they write. I can only assume that they have multi-track brains, while mine is decidedly single.
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We've continued to expand the overall footprint of Ulta Beauty both physically and digitally in so many ways.
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It isn’t that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history’s meaning.
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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
