H. G. Wells Quotes
And in the air are no streets, no channels, no point where one can say of an antagonist, 'If he wants to reach my capital he must come by here.' In the air all directions lead everywhere.
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The options are war versus peace, and I am delighted that, so far, it appears that peaceful negotiation has won the day.
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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I do my best to stay away from dairy, especially ice cream. I've become a cookie monster whenever I want to mess around and eat something cheap.
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The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
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Every villain needs her story told.
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I am happy to donate funds to various organizations that help people in need.
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When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.
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If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.
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Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.
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The teachers are trying to build the same culture in the classroom as we're building in the organization.
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We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.
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Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball. Magic is a guy who would stand for nothing but winning and really prepared himself as well as he prepared his team. Earvin is the complete opposite.
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I might go my whole life stealing money. I got paid to play basketball, which is a scam. I get paid to watch basketball, which is a scam.
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I think musicians are always very generous in promoting anything good they hear. It's just kind of in our nature.
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You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air.
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I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds.
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Oh father high in heaven - smile down upon your sonWho's busy with his money games - his women and his gun.
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And in the air are no streets, no channels, no point where one can say of an antagonist, 'If he wants to reach my capital he must come by here.' In the air all directions lead everywhere.
