H. G. Wells Quotes
The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
Quotes to Explore
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I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.
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When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
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I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.
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Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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I want to help people; that's it.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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Bad ballplayers make good managers.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
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All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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They played Kobe tough and a little harder than the refs wanted to see.
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What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done but a shambles of apology.
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There're the causes where people are like, "What can you do for us? You guys have success and stature; you can make money for us and at the same time present yourselves to the public as altruistic and civic-minded." So it's an exchange. I don't mind looking altruistic and civic-minded if we're actually being that way.
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Where I'm from, there is no violence, pretty much.
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Compromise is a skill, and like all skills it atrophies from lack of use.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
