H. G. Wells Quotes
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
Yo-Yo Ma -
Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.
Jacky Ickx -
In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
T. S. Eliot -
The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
Rachel Kushner -
If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
Fanny Howe
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.
Ted Sarandos -
Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
Larry Elder -
The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There's a different focus; there's a different sound.
Yelawolf -
Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
Finley Peter Dunne -
I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
Samuel Larsen
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There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.
Patrick Duffy -
When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
Gary Cole -
It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
Jack Nicklaus -
In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
Famke Janssen -
I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
Zac Efron -
I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
Rachel Weisz
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One reason I've never been a fan of graphic novels is because a central aspect of literature for me has always been imagining what the things I'm reading about look like.
Martin Filler -
Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men.
D. H. Lawrence -
When I go on stage man I just want people to have fun, I don't want people to think about their problems, I want people to get energy and nutrition and food from that so they can go back into the real world and work on their problems.
Jon Fishman -
The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.
Abraham Lincoln -
The sacred rowan is a woman born long, long ago, a woman whose refusal to see love cost first her lover's life, then the lives of her family, her clan, her people. But not her own life. Not quite. In pity and punishment she was turned into an undying tree, a rowan that weeps only in the presence of transcendent love; and the tears of the rowan are blossoms that confer extraordinary grace upon those who can see them. When enough tears are wept, the rowan will be free. She waits inside a sacred ring that can be neither weighed or measured nor touched. She waits for love that is worth her tears. The rowan is waiting still.
Elizabeth Lowell -
An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.
H. G. Wells