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.
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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.
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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.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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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.
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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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.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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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.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
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There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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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?
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I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
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People say, 'He doesn't want to be a spokesperson for the gay community.' I do, of course I do, but I want to be a spokesperson for everyone. Ya know, straight people, gay people, bisexual. I don't want it to be limited.
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Basically, the reason I'm vegan is because when I was about 16 or 17 years old, I began to understand that we don't need to contribute to the killing and exploitation of animals to feed our bodies correctly.
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We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
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Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.
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An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.
